After deciding to add a rock garden to the landscape, gardeners often find themselves searching for the perfect flowering plants to grow in gravelly soil or with gravel mulch. Not all plants will ...

Even perfectly hardy shrubs such as wintersweet (Chimonanthus) are worth growing against walls, as the wall helps to protect ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For cold-weather garden inspiration, we've rounded up the best winter blooming flowers—bright red ...

Instead of leaving your garden barren in winter, choose from these winter flowers that thrive in cold temperatures, from winter jasmine to snowdrops.

Viola × wittrockiana, commonly referred to as pansies, are like cabbages and leafy greens in that they love a little bit of ...

For many plants, pruning in late winter can ruin your flower display. But for these summer bloomers, it'll have the opposite ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Flowering shrubs aren't just for adding beauty to your garden. They're wonderful attractors of important ...

Are your plants hardy enough to withstand a Chicago winter? Sometimes it depends on what you mean by hardy. “Hardiness is not a simple, black-and-white thing,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge ...