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Keep the harvests coming with these hardy crops for the winter garden.

Want to grow Bleeding Heart? Here's everything you need to know about growing these unique heart-shaped dangling flowers.

Plant them alongside flowers that bloom or thrive in the summer so you're less likely to notice a gap in your garden ...

With this weird, long warm fall, it’s easy to put off putting your garden to bed for the winter. But weather can change very ...

Nothing conjures up the feeling of the tropics like giant, lush-leaved plants, but many of us have to buy them every year and treat them as annuals.

I made this oak’s acquaintance courtesy of “Plants for the Winter Garden” (Timber Press, 2024), by Warren Leach. The author ...

With our warmer-than-average fall and plants holding onto leaves, I’ve been asked if trees are at risk of cold-weather injury ...

While there are many benefits to purchasing and planting bare-root trees versus those in containers, there are also a number ...

Although aluminum in plants isn’t a good thing because it suppresses nutrients, the aluminum-like glitter on the leaves of ...

So it’s time to say out with the old — in this case, warm-season bedding plants — and in with some new plants that are suited for the cool season. November is the perfect time to make this switch in ...