According to Pollyanna Wilkinson, July is the perfect time to prune the all-rounder (for scent, pollinators, colour and more) of our summer gardens: lavender.

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Sunflowers are blooming earlier than usual at Dorothea Dix Park, and city officials say now is the time to visit. The city ...

Good fences make good neighbors.” The narrator of the famous Robert Frost poem “Mending Wall” wonders why his neighbor favors ...

Veronica is an outstanding flower variety that's underrated but that can add some instant balance and lively color to your ...

Desert gardeners in Las Vegas can create a thriving yard even in triple-digit heat by planting desert-friendly plants, proper location and care, and timing their watering in the morning.

Costantino Chiarella, 84, has a property in the Town of Poughkeepsie unlike many others. His garden, in honor of his late ...

Seeds provide most of the calories humanity eats, yet the cells that decide how big each seed becomes have remained a mystery ...