Mexican hat flowers are gorgeous, fast-growing wildflowers that add color and playfulness to a garden. If you want to grow ...

A butterfly is a flying insect known for its brightly colored wings and distinctive flight patterns. Belonging to the ...

Gardeners growing basil this summer are being urged to watch out for a small sign that their plant could be nearing the end of its life cycle. Once basil begins to flower, it may soon stop producing ...

To grow these cutting garden flowers in your garden, she recommends planting them about 30cm apart in full or partial sun.

One of my favorite spring flowers for perennials is the peony. Peonies are a long-lived perennial that you should be able to enjoy for decades. A few years after Sharon and I got married; my parents ...

In the heat of summer, maintain your garden's appearance and extend an active blooming season by removing spent flowers. Here ...

Pruning is done throughout the year to help the garden thrive and promote new growth. When to prune depends on what needs ...

If you are growing old-wood hydrangeas, whose buds grow in the fall and then overwinter before blooming, you cannot prune them in the winter or early spring. If you do, you will remove the buds, and ...

Dahlias put on a bright, colorful show in the garden each summer. To keep them blooming, it is important to remove spent ...

Topping and disbudding are simple maintenance tasks that can greatly benefit your dahlias. Proper topping can make your ...

Nine new homosecoiridoid alkaloids, named lonijaposides O–W (1–9), along with 19 known compounds, were isolated from an aqueous extract of the flower buds of Lonicera japonica. Their structures and ...

Crape myrtles have put on their dazzling display lately, but crape myrtles are a flowering tree that needs care.