If you want to enhance your home's curb appeal or add seasonal interest to your backyard, a flower garden is the perfect solution. Filled with perennials, annuals, and blooming shrubs, a flower garden ...

Edging flower beds with well-defined lines immediately improves the look of a backyard. But its benefits go beyond the aesthetics – edging is practical, too. Whether you're digging a simple shallow ...

FARGO — What did the young plant say to the old plant during a disagreement? OK, bloomer. In the world of plants, perennial flowers are enjoying the same upswing in popularity as houseplants and ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. Also known as pot ...

When you set out to have a bright, colorful flower bed in your yard, the last thing you want is to to be distracted by bare spots disrupting the flow of otherwise abundant planting, creating an ...

When you walk into a nursery or garden center this time of the year, it’s exhilarating — you look around at all of the flowers and feel that the possibilities are limitless. Visions of flowerbeds ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

When you face a flower bed and can’t immediately tell what’s a weed and what’s a flower, you have a situation my wife calls "Code Red." It happens to the best of us at times — myself included. So what ...

Have you noticed that grass refuses to thrive in your lawn, but it's lush and green in your flower beds? Unless you’re ready to give up the blooms and create another area to mow, the grass has got to ...