A key guideline for planting basil outdoors is to monitor the temperature. For seeds to germinate, basil needs soil between ...

Prized for their beautiful, tall spires of blue blooms, delphiniums are a staple of English style perennial borders and cottage gardens. If blue isn’t your color, you can choose delphiniums in a few ...

For starters, it helps to understand the different parts of a poinsettia plant. The showy, colorful parts of the plant which ...

Anyone who is drawn to the romantic charm of an English cottage garden likely has delphinium (Delphinium elatum) on their radar (or planted in their borders already). These tall, elegant flower spikes ...

Poinsettias are known for their bracts, or leaves — not their flowers “Bracts are these modified leaves around cyathia ...

Tomorrow, we enter the month of May. May is the most popular month of the year for gardening. That's because this is the time of the year when all the local greenhouses are filled with the summer ...

It's almost spring! And March 12 is National Plant a Flower Day, the perfect day to bask in the sunlight and plant flowers that will help pollinators like the endangered eastern monarch butterfly. The ...

Amaryllis grow and bloom best with at least four hours of sunshine per day. Too much shade may prevent them from blooming ...

MacCubbin gives gardening advice for Central Florida on amaryllis bulbs, citrus trees, magnolia trees, azaleas and dragon ...

Pennsylvania’s climate is perfect for growing spring-blooming bulbs. We have plenty of winter cold for favorites such as tulips and daffodils to get their needed “chill” time, then we usually have a ...

Daffodils, tulips and hyacinths have been delivering wonderful splashes of color – not just in local parks and yards, but in grocery stores and garden centers where people purchase potted flowers to ...