Whenever I’m planning a new garden, no matter what mood I’m trying to create, I always include some purple plants. I look for a variety of purple flowering plants including purple flowering bushes, ...

If your yard is "under-bulbed" and slow to show early-spring color, have a look at these 10 flower bulbs that are best planted in October.

A surefire way to become a millionaire: invent an easy way to get rid of weeds in your garden without harming other plants or wildlife. In the meantime, nature already has the closest thing to that ...

Spring bulbs, which are best planted in October, can be used in "meadowy" ways instead of the usual line-'em-up approach.

Leading garden expert Tom Massey has listed half a dozen bulbs that gardeners should be planting in the next three weeks ...

The rains have slowed, the sun has returned and it appears Oregon’s spring has finally arrived. And with spring, comes the annual camas bloom. Common camas (Camassia quamash) was originally classified ...

It’s late winter and soon we will start (if we haven’t already!) seeing the very earliest blooming ephemeral spring flowers, such as snowdrops and winter aconites. Ephemerals are plants that will ...

As I wander the grounds of the arboretum throughout the month of May, my eye is caught by the blue flowers of the late spring-blooming plant commonly known as Stokes aster. Closely related to its ...

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