It can be disappointing when, after making you wait for months on end, the flowering plants in your garden exhaust their blooms in a few weeks. Fortunately, you can encourage some of them to remain in ...

Gardeners are always looking for easy-going flowers that will make life a bit easier, while still providing a beautiful garden. In my years of experience as a master gardener and writer, I have ...

Plants that flop over under the weight of their flowers don’t add much to your garden’s appeal; in fact, they detract from the overall picture. Some taller flowering plants produce sturdy stems that ...

Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and pollinators become uncoordinated, even for a ...