During the warmer months of the year, gardeners all around the country head to their local nursery or garden center to find interesting plants they can add to their yards. Many also search for ...

If you want to attract pretty hummingbirds and butterflies to your garden, growing shrubs and trees with beautiful flowers that are also highly scented will certainly do the trick. It's even better if ...

A lot of houseplants bloom indoors, but not so many produce abundant flowers in winter. Brighten up dark corners of your home ...

The Esperanza is one of those shrubs that brings about hope and anticipation for the growing season. Actually, that is what Esperanza means in Spanish. As a gardener who got his horticultural roots in ...

For gardeners with limited space, a hearty shrub or small tree that produces fragrant blossoms nearly year-round might be a good choice. Mock orange fills that bill. The common name mock orange is ...

It often happens that when a certain color combination appears in your garden, it is simultaneously found on a number of different plants. For me, at this time of the year, it’s orange and yellow. The ...

Lion’s ear: it’s six feet tall with a globular orange flower arranged on the stem like oranges and tangerines skewered on a shish kabob. It’s hard to ignore. From upcountry pastures to West Maui ...

When you stroll through a nursery with your wife and she points to a plant and says, “I want that,” you gladly comply with her request. It happened a few days ago when the object of my wife’s desire ...

Update: Several readers reached out asking how they can responsibly remove hawkweed from their property. This story has been updated with information about what experts recommend. That cluster of ...

Lucia Ortíz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico. Here, in the winding ...