If your garden is full of sun, many great shrubs will love it, producing fabulous flowers and interesting berries. If you’re ...

Endless summer hydrangeas are a flowering shrub that can be a real centerpiece in your garden. Because their flowers will bloom from the spring right on through to fall, they are perfect for ...

Spicebush flowers in very early spring, with small sweet-scented blooms of greenish-yellow. Some early butterflies may visit these flowers, but the real draw comes later, when the leaves appear.

Give gardens that finished look with these low-growing border plants. Discover gorgeous perennials perfect for edging beds and defining space. Learn how to use these perennial border plants to add ...

Right now, in mid-April, I count more than 10 species of plants in bloom, along with seven species of bulb plants, which are blooming by the hundred for me. Let’s start with trees and shrubs.

Spring-blooming trees and shrubs produce their flower buds on “old wood,” i.e. branches that grew new flower buds late last season. The buds overwinter, then open in spring.

One challenge our gardens have in the heat of summer even in normal weather years is that of providing color. Annuals often ...

Pansies bloom at Muddy Brook Regional Elementary School in May 2024. "I always try for a limited color scheme in my pots, but when it comes to pansies I have no self-control," Eagle columnist Anne ...