When you’re planning a garden border, it’s crucial to include plants that provide constant visual interest. Here are tips for choosing trees, shrubs and perennials that create structure and maintain year-round interest.

Hamamelis mollis ‘Early Bright’ is a Chinese witch hazel prized for its fragrant winter flowers.

‘Black Pearl’ is an easy-to-grow ornamental pepper with striking black foliage and long-lasting peppers.

The turn of the year always brings the same response—where does the time go? Here’s a really good book that relates to that same question.

In this age of social media, I’m reaching out here on the Editor’s Blog to see if there is one among you who wants to join a dynamic team of passionate gardeners who are carrying on the Horticulture tradition in the 21st century.

The Book of Little Hostas
by Kathy Guest Shadrack and Michael Shadrack
208 pages
Timber Press, November 2010
List price: $27.95
When I’m asked to review a book about a topic I love, this can be either good or bad …

How to care for a phalaenopsis or cattleya orchid.

Check out this holiday wreath I made. You have to admit, it’s at least good for a chuckle.

A life without weekly mowing and watering can be a reality, and The American Meadow Garden can lead you to it.

Christmas is just about here… and even people who have skills like “organization” and “planning” and “taste” have issues holding it together this time of year so just IMAGINE what a hell my life is …

Ever wonder what American gardening was like decades ago? What were the popular plants, the challenges facing gardeners, the methods they relied upon? Horticulture has been in publication since 1904, and our back issues give a glimpse at the gardening life of old.