Vining plants often benefit from a trim to keep them looking well-maintained. These climbers, in particular, should be pruned ...

Today's topic is sweet potatoes. But hold the marshmallows; these sweet potatoes aren't for the table. For the summer flower garden, however, ornamental sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) make a ...

October gardening tips for outdoor flowering plants, ornamentals and vegetable gardening are provided in this week's column.

Are ornamental sweet potatoes edible? If you want sweet potatoes to eat, the tubers from your ornamental sweet potato vines are indeed edible. However, you're better off choosing a variety that's ...

If a plant is healthy and relatively unstressed, the normal seasonal move to cooler weather triggers dormancy.

No other group of plants can quite duplicate what vines do for us in the landscape. Trellised vines can create a vertical display of foliage and flowers, a great way to save space in small gardens. A ...

Flowering vines are an easy way to fill vertical spaces in your garden with life and color. Choose from annual vines for quick color for a growing season, or go with a perennial vine that will grow ...

. . . “It’s gone where the woodbine twineth and the wangdoodle calleth for its mate.” The romantic Elizabethan gardens of Shakespeare’s day often contained tangled bits of woodland, carefully woven ...

Ornamental plants from tender bulbs grace the landscape during the growing season. Tender bulbs include dahlias, caladiums, ...