Gaps in the summer garden? Pam Baggett tells how to fill them without emptying your wallet.

Horticulture magazine and Project EverGreen collaborate to install a garden.

A successful butterfly garden must support butterflies at all stages of their lives. Learn what plants will attract butterflies to make your garden their home.

If complacency is the enemy of great gardening, then Alaskans are fortunate to the extreme. Every few years, we lose big chunks of our gardens to winters that are unusually terrible, and we get to start all over again, or very nearly so. However, when many hundreds of favorite plants were killed in a recent snowless winter, I was tempted to give up gardening in the subarctic…Even before I could see the full extent of the damage, a saving thought struck me: I would have to view the massive winter kill as an opportunity rather than a problem. That’s right—the garden wasn’t two-thirds dead, it was one-third full…

Southern garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence wrote: “All gardeners become rock gardeners if they garden long enough.” Gardening is an art, she explained, and rock gardening is the purest, most personal of all forms of horticulture…

Like many gardeners, I spent several years caught up in the overstuffed container craze. I simplified, and re-discovered that certain tropical plants—by virtue of their strength or flamboyance or natural charm—make dynamic focal points that deserve the spotlight, supported by a few beautiful, secondary companions…

A beautiful garden is a collaborative effort between its maker and its plants, neither more important than the other. The gardener envisions the garden, but the plants realize it. And in so doing they frequently create effects the gardener never anticipated…

For Amy Goldman—the consummate vegetable gardener and prominent proponent of all things connected with cucurbits—herbs were a natural progression. In her initial encounters of an herbal kind, Amy added them to her vegetables for a little pizzazz…

How to harmonize the garden with your home’s color.

These stems provide color and luster, all year

The scene is an herb and wild garden planted in a dry stone terrace that hugs two sides of our house. It measures about 1,600 square feet—less than a twentieth of an acre. Before we made this garden, the area was a lawn—a brown lawn, for this hot, south-facing terrace lies on sterile soil that in some places barely covers the granite ledge below. And in most seasons, there were no birds.