Not every beautiful plant is a good fit for your garden. Some popular perennials can turn into high-maintenance headaches, spreading aggressively, flopping over, or requiring constant cleanup. Before ...

Get your Brevard garden ready for spring with upcoming events, planting guides and tips for freeze recovery and fertilizing.

Do you know the difference between a bulb, rhizome and tuber? “Sunset Western Garden Book” explains that there are five types of bulbs: true bulbs, corms, rhizomes, tubers and tuberous ...

Is excess rainwater creating havoc in your garden, or being wasted into the storm drain system? Collect it and make a right-as-rain garden for pollinators.

Even when not in bloom, their upright, sword-like foliage adds strong lines and texture to garden beds, making them reliable ...

Tough crowns, drainage, and calm timing help bring back perennials that shrug off winter and greet spring right on time each ...

Sago palm is often sold as an easy tropical accent, but ASPCA poison control lists it as toxic to both cats and dogs. The ...

Dividing perennials is a quiet kind of optimism: you take a plant that looks a little tired and, with a shovel and a bit of confidence, you turn it into several vigorous starts. By the time spring ...

Peonies are a beloved herbaceous perennial that lives for many years in the garden. Generally peonies are grown from rhizomes but peony rhizomes look a bit funky and can sometimes scare gardeners that ...

Discover how to grow turmeric indoors with expert advice on everything from planting rhizomes to caring for plants to ...

One of my treasured plants is the walking iris which I grow in a container. Every March, I look forward to its blooms as a sure sign that spring has ...