Recently my parents bought a new home and we just had the chance to go see it. I was immediately struck, as they had been, by its gardens! It is clear that the former owners …

Umbrella leaf (Darmera peltata) is a Northwest US native plant with astonishingly large leaves.

Are the daylilies I see growing along roadsides native plants? I live in Connecticut.

I cannot stay, I came to say I must be going…

Where I live (New England), so far it has not been a fabulous summer weather-wise. It seems we get one or two nice, warm, clear days, then—boom!—a long stretch of cool and rainy weather. Last …

This landless gardener has been quite busy in the gardens as of late. How do you manage that? you may ask. Easy! I am a volunteer gardener with the Adopt-a-Plot program at Ault Park, a …

I don’t even have to introduce Andrew Keys, do I?

Tips for transplanting moss from one garden area to another.

There’s nothing as soothing as an emerald carpet of moss on a damp, misty morning. Mosses combine wonderfully with ferns and evergreen groundcovers in the shady garden and I hope you’ll agree that mosses are one plant that no garden should be without.

Here are a few tips to consider if you’re headed out of town (and away from your garden) on a summer getaway.

Do you know what a push present is? It’s the hunk of rock (and I don’t mean flagstone!) that your husband is supposed to give you for having a baby. I believe it is …