Here are five things to work on in the garden this week: Vegetables. An easily memorized rhyme concerning crop rotation in the vegetable garden goes like this: “beans, roots, greens, fruits.” The idea ...

Shrub borders are my favorite kind of garden borders. They bring life, plant energy and structure to the garden all year round. And once established, they tend to be the easiest plants to take care of ...

Long before it grows its classic black and orange wings, the Monarch butterfly begins its life among the hooded flowers of milkweed. As caterpillars, they can’t eat anything else. Alongside millions ...

Not long ago, I received the following email: “I have two crape myrtle trees in my front yard, one about 25 years old and one about 10 years old. They are in full sun. They usually bloom later than ...