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 ...

Tidy up roses by giving them a summer trim that will reinvigorate plants with healthy new growth and another flush of beautiful flowers.

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 ...

Cut the spent flower at the intersection of the stem and the first set of leaves. This gets rid of a "headless" stem sticking ...

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 ...

If your plants' leaves are looking lacy—or you're seeing patches of dead grass in your lawn—Japanese beetles may be to blame.

The summer is always a little brighter in the garden when brightly colored zinnias are among the various plants. Zinnias are ...

I’m amazed by my peonies. It still blows my mind that such a massive, frilly blossom comes from a bud roughly the size of a ...