Choose a pot that is a good size, at least 14 or 16 inches in diameter, to avoid any top-heavy tumbles towards the latter end of summer and fall. Try these rustic pots, available from Amazon, which ...

Luminary series phlox, particularly the Prismatic Pink variety, provided a vibrant display of blooms and attracted pollinators. The phlox thrived in a mixed perennial bed, complementing other plants ...

Sometimes we gardeners become so focused — obsessed is probably more accurate — on newly discovered or unique plants that we overlook the ones that have served us well for years. Such was the case ...

Q: Can you tell me the name of this purple ground cover? A: The ground cover in question is a perennial plant called creeping phlox (Phlox stolonifera). It comes in pink, purple, white and a few ...

Ask the Gardener’s Carol Stocker tells you what to do in the garden this weekend and has a change of heart about phlox. Garden phlox can be tiresome to take care of, with the deadheading, the mildew, ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Phlox was some of the first North American native plants discovered and cultivated by European naturalists, dating back to the 1700s. Like a ...

The name 'creeping phlox' gets thrown around for a handful of ground-hugging species, but the two you’ll bump into most are Phlox subulata and Phlox stolonifera. Both are North American natives, both ...

Editor's note: Once a month, the OSU Extension master gardener's office of Franklin County profiles a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Each spring as the Ohio woodlands wake up to new ...

Southern Blaze Bright Pink phlox is coming next year and with it brings a "Touch of Texana." It will do its part to make sure your neighbors don’t ‘Out Phlox’ you when it comes to garden flowers. It ...

QI have a large maple tree in my back yard with a branch span of maybe 40 feet. It has a fair amount of above-ground roots. Am I safe covering up some of the roots to make the ground even to plant ...