Here are the best shade perennials gardening experts recommend, including plants that attract pollinators such as bees and ...

Karen Musgrave, horticulturist at Hicks Nurseries, agrees. Light pruning in June helps maintain the shrub’s dense form while ...

Gardeners should also be patient. Clematis often have limited above-ground growth during the first year or two after planting ...

Ragged robin flowers attract bees and butterflies while offering a brief but dazzling display of early summer beauty.

With summer now here, it’s the perfect time to plan garden visits and outdoor excursions. Immerse yourself in the great ...

But it's also a time when many spring-flowering varieties near the end of their first flush of blooms, making this the the ...

Roses, rhododendrons, azaleas all should be deadheaded weekly this month. Thinning fruit from apple and pear trees is best done this month as well.

Bring a hat, your gloves, water, and your favorite garden tool and spend some time working with fellow gardeners to maintain the common areas of the garden. Tasks include weeding or raking pathways ...

But the end of May and early June are times when people get serious about their containers. Some people create flowered pots ...

Most gardeners coast through June, thinking the hard work is behind them. The seeds are in the ground, the annuals are ...

Every Easter and Mother’s Day, florist hydrangeas (also known as Hydrangea macrophylla or mophead) fly off the shelves at ...

The Morton Arboretum, a 1,700-acre outdoor museum and garden of trees near Lisle. She works with the Arboretum’s horticultural and scientific st ...