The dormant season is a great time to sow flower seeds, establish trees and shrubs, and get started on the vegetable garden.

Want to know the core plants you can grow to add beauty while helping beneficial garden friends? Discover the best ...

The final part of our best-new-plants-of-2025 series concludes with a look at some of the top new trees and shrubs debuting ...

Hopefully you already know that native plants can play a vital role in your yard’s ecosystem. You may be thinking of a host of colors – but have you made room for native blue flowers yet?

A blue ring formed in 1902 in a tree in northern Norway. Image by Pawel Matulewski and Liliana Siekacz. Scientists studying pine trees and juniper shrubs in northern Scandinavia are revealing the ...

Since trees and shrubs can live for hundreds of years, identifying these blue rings allows us to spot cold summers in the past. By looking at pine trees and juniper shrubs from northern Norway ...

Potted plants are an excellent way to add color and beauty to your space. Growing your plants in containers makes it easy to ...

For people, the freeze and snow have brought most things to a standstill. But wildlife natives like cypress trees and prairie ...

Falling Stars' is lavender blue and 'Hope' is raspberry red. Remove old leaves in spring and don't ... Do not re-pot too often, as restriction stimulates flowering. Great plants for growing with ...

The secret to a hummingbird haven in spring lies in starting blue flax (Linum perenne) indoors during the chill of winter. These drooping, delicate-looking blue flowers have a hummingbird magnet ...

Buchwal's team analyzed samples from 25 Scots pine trees and 54 juniper shrubs, staining and photographing their growth rings under a microscope. The study revealed that blue rings were more ...

this low-growing plant has delicate flowers that flutter on long stems above silvery or variegated leaves. The plants form attractive clumps of ivy, lance, or heart-shaped foliage. There are ...