Six heat-loving cut flowers for SA summers, with how to pick and condition each for longer vase life, plus simple sowing and ...

Corn is a great bet for a quick and rewarding summer harvest. This fast-growing crop performs well in USDA hardiness zones ...

"Show mums" are a cold-hardy, late-season perennial showstopper in your garden that won't die off in the winter. As the summer season winds down, gardeners like myself start getting desperate to hang ...

Do mums come back in the fall? It depends on the plants you're growing and how you winterize them. Here's everything to know.

As home gardeners become more educated about the benefits of native plants (supporting native insects, birds and wildlife, and the environment as a whole), the focus has mainly been on trees, shrubs ...

Ever wondered why some of your plants die after one season while others come back year after year? If you’ve pondered that, you’ve likely noticed the difference between two categories of plants: ...

Q: A few of my annuals are withering. The leaves just collapsed and wilted. When I water, nothing recovers. Are they a lost cause? A: This sounds like root rot, unfortunately, which would indeed mean ...

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Hardy annuals, in horticultural terms, ticks two boxes: ‘hardy’, meaning not susceptible to frost, and ‘annual’, meaning it ...

Flowering annuals will show you a good time with the brightest colors in the plant world. Grow them in sun, shade, underneath shrubs or trees, in borders or in containers of any kind. Annuals don't ...