Gardening enthusiasts are constantly searching for new plants that offer both beauty and practicality. One such herb that’s quickly becoming a favorite among gardeners worldwide is borage. Originally ...

Cabbage is a go-to yearly crop for the home gardener, especially in cooler climates. Seeds can be planted two to three weeks before the last frost in springtime for a summer harvest, and then ...

Borage plants grow three feet tall and two feet wide and self-sow with ease so that you will enjoy their garden presence for years to come. Ornamentals. Mexican flame vine (Senecio confusus) is a fast ...

In fact, borage oil has over double the GLA of ... that accompany the distinctive fuzzy red stems. The entire plant, including the flowers, leaves and seeds, are often used medicinally (dubbed ...

Plants recycle resources from wilting flowers, storing them to enhance future reproduction and resource allocation.

Preventive spraying of pesticides, such as one specific to caterpillars – Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki (Btk) – requires regular applications. This will incur cost, time and effort, and is ...

You can stick to familiar herbs like parsley, or perhaps you’re up for branching out to something lesser known such as borage or chervil ... leaf growth will slow down, and the plants will begin to ...

Only six years old at the time, I was at first put off by these garish plants. Such strange and vibrant flowers seemed out of place among the respectable beans, peppers, spinach, and other ...

‘Fresca’ was bred in the United States and is an ever-bearing variety that flowers repeatedly from summer through to autumn ...

Cover crops can provide biodiversity and offer habitat for beneficial insects and earthworms — plant borage, mustard and ... When they are 25% to 50% in flower, chop them up and dig the material ...

there’s an incredible variety of flowering plants to cultivate in your garden. Mix annuals, which provide a short-lived burst of colour each season, with perennials that return year after year ...