For most home gardeners, there are a number of different vegetables to choose to grow. As nothing quite beats the flavor of a ...

Flowering ground covers like candytuft and phlox make a nice accent along walkways or around a bed. If you want to move away from flowers for a bold, bright electric green, Creeping Jenny is one ...

Unlike deciduous trees and shrubs, evergreens have a continuous need for water during fall and winter. When the ground dries out or ...

Bearberry is another fantastic ground cover that offers a stunning fall display. Native to North America, this low-growing, evergreen plant has leathery, dark green leaves that turn a striking ...

The delicious dark green leafy kale is one of my favourite winter vegetables. Ultra versatile, kale is bursting with goodness and flavour too. A member of the Brassica family, like broccoli, kale ...

Low-growing perennials cover soil, prevent erosion and provide pretty foliage and flowers. Garden experts share their ...

A cool-season flower that can be set out in early spring, sweet alyssum fades in the summer heat, but its clusters of tiny ...

with many falling to the ground. As plants receive less and less sunlight in the shortened days of fall, the production of chlorophyll, a substance which makes the leaves appear green by ...

According to the Smoky mountains website, by the next week, patchy foliage will cover northern ... its peak, leaves start to turn darker and duller, and often fall to the ground.

The practical value of lily-of-the-valley is as a low, dense ground cover with overlapping dark green, oval leaves that keep weeds at bay for much of the year. Slender, upright stems emerge in late ...

Leaves are actually more colours than just green but Chlorophyll is so dominant most of the summer that its green colour covers up all the other natural ... be short lived before the leaves fall to ...