Dividing herbaceous perennials in the fall is an easy way to create new plants for your garden. A herbaceous perennial overwinters as a fleshy underground mass that can be cut into smaller pieces to ...

Purple coneflower is a low-maintenance native plant that adds beauty to your garden and supports pollinators and birds.

Depending upon the type of gardening you enjoy, August can be a month with fewer garden tasks and activities. If you tend a large vegetable garden, you are still busy with harvesting, doing battle ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Our most recent column addressed the planning of a year-round garden, including designing landscape basics and searching for (mostly) California native ...

As winter progresses, the foliage on most herbaceous perennial plants is dying back. Many are going dormant. We want our gardens to look well-kept even in winter. But what do we cut back now, what is ...

If your hostas are getting a little lonely, it might be time to plant them a new friend. Find some of the best options with ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

The sun is the basis for photosynthesis, but not all plants thrive in strong sunlight. Strong sunlight constrains plant diversity and plant biomass in the world's grasslands, a new study shows.

The fall garden brings a multitude of projects and tasks, some quite satisfying and others just things to get done. But one of those projects can make tremendous contributions to next year’s garden — ...