If sunlight is scarce in your backyard it's important to choose the right shade-loving plants to make the best of the space. Plants that adapt easily to shade conditions tend to be understated ...

During what we fervently hope will be a long rainy winter, cabin fever may make us long for some signs of new plant life and color in or near our homes. This can be achieved with potted flowering ...

Flowering bulbs offer a multitude of opportunities to enhance your landscape aesthetics. With ranges of color, bloom type, and size, as well as their long sequence of bloom, bulbs are unequaled in any ...

Learn how to plant, care for, and force the bulbs of your paperwhites. They're great gifts for the holidays or all year long.

Flowering bulbs are one of the harbingers of spring, bringing with them a splash of unexpected color. For all their beauty, bulbs are surprisingly low maintenance, containing both seed and the source ...

In just 15 minutes, you can plant a beautiful garden guaranteed to brighten your spirits and indoor décor this winter. All you need is a container with drainage holes, potting mix and some tulips, ...

While you may associate flowering bulbs with spring, the work for getting these beauties to bloom actually begins during fall and winter. Many bulbs can still be planted in the garden in the winter, ...

A crocus flower poking out of the snow is a welcome early sign of spring for gardeners. Learn when to plant crocuses and how ...

Now is the time when it’s easy to be enticed by catalog photos and nursery displays of spring flowering bulbs. Nothing signals spring like the emergence of bright yellow daffodils or fragrant ...

Outside drags on gray in December, but winter flowering plants inside turn things around with their bright colors and smells ...

Bright yellow daffodils, colorful tulips and fragrant hyacinths brighten our spring gardens. Give them the care they need to extend their spring display and they’ll keep them coming back for years.

One of my favorite elementary school art projects was making popcorn hyacinths. We would shake popped corn in a paper bag filled with dry tempera paint, cut leaves out of construction paper, and glue ...