Before you toss those old nursery pots and clear that fallen log from your yard, turn them into a cool, easy, fully ...

In the spring, beautiful beds of pansies, violas, petunias, dianthus, snapdragons and other cool-season bedding plants are blooming in flower gardens. The peak blooming season for these plants is ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. Also known as pot ...

Gardeners often overlook the fact that some of the cool-season bedding plants that can be planted now are wonderfully fragrant. Color always seems to be the dominant factor when selecting these plants ...

What could be more breathtaking for flower bed ideas front yard than a quintessentially English country garden? Use traditional cottage garden plants like speedwell (Veronica), catmint and ...

Severe freezes this winter have left our landscapes less attractive than usual as we begin to move into spring. Tropical plants that might otherwise be contributing foliage are brown or have been cut ...

Sweet alyssum (Lobularia maritima) is very useful in the cool-season garden for its low-spreading growth habit. This makes it excellent for planting in the front of flowers beds as an edging. Or you ...