Knowing when to water is key to healthy plants.

Even the most beautifully planned garden can benefit from a few well-placed container plants. Pots and planters add flexibility, personality, and instant impact—no digging required. Containers make it ...

Like many of you, I had a few plants that flowered through the winter. But my roses were the rock stars in the winter, blooming right through December, even though the temperatures were chilly. Roses ...

Hybrid tea and floribunda roses each bring unique beauty and care needs to your garden. Hybrid teas impress with single, elegant blooms on long stems, while floribundas charm with clusters of color ...

For centuries, the rose has stood as a universal emblem of love, beauty and devotion. Love and roses are forever inseparably entwined in our hearts and imaginations. When we want to express love, we ...

Improved varieties of roses are now in garden centers. It’s time to look at how these newer roses are different from your Mom’s high-maintenance roses of a few decades ago. Remember when the rose was ...

The past couple of weeks gardeners have been writing to me asking for ideas for colorful combinations in baskets, window boxes and containers for shady environments. I like to quip back in humor and ...

Roses are a gorgeous flower that can brighten up any garden, and if you have them planted outside, there’s only a month or so ...

For a low-effort, high-impact look, Mark Thompson—owner of Shoppe, a garden store and nursery in Birmingham—filled an eye-catching, shallow urn with a combination of violas and pansies. Opting for an ...

Each of these creative garden containers once had a completely different purpose.