If you garden in an area that is buried under snow or held captive by below-freezing temperatures for weeks (or months!), the wait for spring can often feel endless. Especially when there are so many ...

Annuals make gardening easy. They provide instant gratification, filling in quickly and blooming with abandon all season long. They're inexpensive and happy when planted in containers, hanging baskets ...

Vegetables and fruits that thrive in the sun. Alex Wong Getty Images Here’s a straightforward guide to the flowers and veggies that thrive in full sun, picked with beginners in mind. You don’t need ...

Conventional wisdom says vegetable gardens need full sun, but a productive garden doesn’t always require the recommended six to eight hours of direct sunlight. If fences, trees or your house cast ...

Two new mandevilla vines with glowing flowers, a caladium with black leaves, and a bright-white zinnia that blooms all summer despite high heat headline the list of interesting new annual flowers ...

If you’ve spent years tending a garden, you know the satisfaction of watching something bloom that you planted with your own hands. You also know that not every plant earns its keep — some demand ...

It sounds like you’ve chosen a nice assortment of annual flowers and fruits to start with seed at home. Growing plants from seed is a great way to get access to plant varieties you can’t find in a ...

What it is: If you ask seasoned flower growers what they’d consider to be the single best annual flower, many (including me) would tell you Supertunia Vista Bubblegum. That super-heavy blooming ...