Basil leaves are commonly used in cooking, but if you keep your plant alive long enough, you should get some flowers. The flowers grow on thin spikes, with each spike producing miniature edible purple ...

Trying to encourage more native birds like cardinals to visit your yard? Plant this attractive ground cover with vibrant ...

From orchids shaped like flying ducks to flowers that resemble white doves, these extraordinary plants have some of nature’s ...

Wisley has gone 56 days without rain – leaving one of England's most famous gardens within sight of Britain's all-time drought record ...

Every gardening blog tells you to circle your zucchini with marigolds and call it a day. A real agricultural field study says ...

A massive new gas plant in Texas will be built with much less efficient technology than regular gas plants. It’s far from the ...

On a recent summer Saturday evening, María and her 6-year-old daughter sat at a bustling intersection in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago with a large bucket filled with flowers wrapped in ribbon ...

The spotted bee balm develops clusters of flowers in a tiered system, stacked along a stem. The aesthetic result is like nothing else.

Discover Charlie Albone’s five standout plants for tricky garden spots, from shady corners to poor drainage and lacklustre ...

Every gardener loves plants that are easy to grow, even better are the flowers that do the sowing for you. Many flowers drop seeds later in the summer and autumn. Some survive the winter and germinate ...

If you’re not dead-set on all natives, hellebores are arguably the toughest perennial for dry-shade settings under big trees.