Pampas grass is a wonderful ornamental grass whose lush panicles offer a restful break from the green of a typical yard. Knowing when to plant pampas grass can make all the difference between a ...

This video shows how growing ornamental plants in the garden can be beneficial for food crops by firstly outlining how they ...

Why keep your flower garden and the vegetable plot separated? Learn about growing ornamental kale that is both delicious and beautiful. As you’d imagine, few food plants meet all these criteria.

Diseased or pest-contaminated plant material is an exception; it should be cut back in the fall and properly disposed of (not ...

There are certain rules we follow if we adhere to the traditional dogma of landscape design. These rules tell us what plants can be planted where, what types of plants work well in combination with ...

It’s been a long, beautiful fall this year. The cool weather tripped the trees to color up and then hold their leaves for a beautiful show of reds, oranges and yellows. Tree leaves aren’t the only ...

Grocery stores pile mountains of pumpkins in the fall, but warty, twisted and striped gourds can also turn a front porch ...

Grafting is a horticultural technique used to vegetatively join the top of one plant to the base of another to the type of fruit we’re wanting but on a smaller tree. On grafted dwarf fruit trees, the ...

Growing just a few ornamental plants — such as daffodils or petunias — in a bare front garden can make people feel happier and less stressed, a study found. Experts led from the Royal Horticultural ...

“Warm-season grasses should be cut back in fall, while cool-season grasses are best trimmed in early spring,” says Niemann.

Normally, when people consider the kinds of plants they want to put in their gardens, grass is not their first thought. However, landscapers and gardeners looking for something different and dramatic ...

Exotic plants dominate esthetically-managed landscapes, which cover 30–40 million hectares in the United States alone. Recent ecological studies have found that landscaping with exotic plant species ...