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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In addition to bringing a sort of tamed wildness to your outdoor rooms and spaces, flowering vines pull ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re looking for something for your landscape that you’ve never tried, may I suggest flowering vines. Many gardeners enjoy these plants but don’t really give them enough attention except when ...

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