Bring life to your garden this winter with five ready-to-plant favourites that thrive in the cold. Here's how to plant up a ...

Strawberries are a perfect plant for containers, especially hanging containers. They look gorgeous with the fruit drooping ...

Bowers says that Redtwig Dogwood is a native plant that’s super hardy and looks amazing all year round, which is why it’s one ...

Late October graced us with chilly mornings and warm but dry afternoons. As November dawns, however, I have heard the first ...

Spotting a hummingbird in your garden never gets boring. Their long beaks and acrobatic antics are a sight straight out of a nature documentary, and since all that flying takes a lot of energy, ...

If you’re an avid gardener, the prospect of so many weeks of drab winter without a garden to enjoy can seem dismal. That’s when containers of colorful plant combinations, placed on the porch, patio or ...

When I was in college, I had three pots with tiny plants growing on my windowsill. They were my connection with horticulture. Those long nights trying to figure out why a horticulture major was taking ...

Container gardening in our desert climate can be a little tricky. Not many native plants do well in containers, and non-native plants are stressed by the sun and dry air. Plants and soil heat up ...

Everybody loves plants in containers. Whether it’s giant pots of annual color, a few cherry tomatoes on a sunny balcony or a succulent on the back patio, containers provide all kinds of options for ...

Container plants are much more vulnerable to the devastation of summer heat and sun than those planted in the ground. Therefore, you need to provide special care to help them survive -- and more ...