Category: Gardening

The top gardening trends for 2023, including designing an environmentally friendly garden, growing mushrooms, the best gardening books and the hardy plants that can cope with climate change

Winter months are the perfect time to think about gardening and plan ahead for what you want to see blooming in your spring and summer garden. It’s also a perfect

Viva Magenta is the hot new color for 2023, according to Pantone, the gurus of all things color. Specifically, it is Pantone 18-1750. In the garden world, flowers will never

On Wednesday night, two men allegedly paid by Mission realtor Louis Cornejo were given a task: to move seven huge planters away from the west gate of the

On a cool day in late spring, I wandered in my back yard and counted 35 planted containers! I had collected the containers: large, medium, and small, from thrift stores, friends, and garden shops. They were various shapes and colors. And, of course, when planted, every container showcased plants I was interested in at the time. Several of the containers had been planted 5 or more years ago and were looking rather tired, some even had roots growing though the drainage hole! Others no longer served their purpose in highlighting a special plant or theme. Several containers were cracked or broken. And, keeping them watered in our hot, dry summers was getting harder. In my quest to revitalize and reduce the number of containers, I spent some hours researching container gardening.

All-America Selections, a national nonprofit organization that tests plant varieties, has announced awards for six new flowers after competitive trials across North America.

Winter burn could be seen on boxwood hedges in Clark County as early as November. Prune hedges in February or March to avoid damage to the plants.