To me, lupines look their finest in mountain yards. And that’s a no-brainer. Big colorful spikes of bold and beautiful ...

Plus questions on caterpillars on Colorado blue spruce, gorgeous plowers spilling over a boulder wall, on baptisia or blue false indigo and what is the difference between madevilla and dipladenia?

For many years, people around the U.S. have been working together to provide safe ecosystems for bugs, birds and other ...

Plants are anchored in one spot, but they are cunning. They have mastered the art of enticing more mobile organisms to do ...

While the carpenter and bumble bees were the most obvious visitors to the lupines, a closer look revealed a host of activity ...

How do you keep your weeds under control? Now I’ve been planting vegetable gardens since I was a kid with my mom, so I know what the seedlings look like with most of the things I plant.

Adjacent to this long row was a garden where John's vegetables were planted, It was much wider. He had just put in a long row ...

These plants smell like rotten meat — Now we know how they do it From the aptly-named carrion flower to the stinking corpse lily, these plants thrive through disgusting odors ...

Personally, I think it’s a tiny tragedy this plant exists in our landscapes without the admiration it deserves' ...

If you want to see what a well-labeled garden can look like, consider a visit to the Willott Iris Garden in Cleveland’s Rockefeller Park, which is free to all and has more than 600 varieties of ...