Here are some grasses that handle wet winters and dry summers with relative ease, while adding year-round interest and texture.

Beautiful and sturdy with a flair for the dramatic, alliums are a graceful way to add color and architectural dimension to your garden.

Some of the best dried flowers are strawflowers, celosia, statice, baby’s breath, lavender, amaranth, roses, and hydrangeas.

Instead, other alliums belong among the wild flowers, or near anything grown more for ornamental purposes. Remember, all alliums are very strongly flavored, which means they can potentially affect ...

I often run into people who genuinely don't want to use herbicides and pesticides but as one fellow recently said to me: ...

Grubs, the larvae of beetles such as Japanese beetles and June bugs, pose a significant threat to many plants by feeding on their roots while residing in the soil. These pests can wreak havoc on lawns ...

When it gets around to the middle of summer and your garden is looking a little on the tired side, especially if you're in a ...

Temperatures are soaring as the third heatwave of the year hits the UK. But will there be a hosepipe ban? And what does this ...

Doug Tallamy is the TA Baker Professor of Ag and Natural Resources in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology.

Over a period of 12 years, the owners of a plot in Kent transformed it from a drab space into an idyllic, flower-filled ...