I decided, about 20 backaches ago, that I needed to scale back my expectations of massive beds of color washing the front of our landscape. Those just weren’t going to be practical if I were going to ...

Congrats to the Native Plant Center for putting on another great spring conference. Called "Wildlife Matters: Creating Landscapes that Sustain Nature," it ran all day Monday at the Westchester ...

Turn kiddie heads with black-leafed plants like Aeonium 'Swartkop,' left, carrots that have "forked" to look like people with orange legs, center, or softball-sized purple ornamental onions ...

Recently we had a speaker at our Linden Garden Club who spoke about creating a wildlife-friendly garden which inspired me to treat the subject in this column. I have had good and bad experiences with ...

BEVERLY — More than half a million landscaping businesses in the U.S service a huge market for clean-cut lawns that continues to grow each year. However, some landscaping and gardening companies — ...

It’s still a bit early to plant flowers in your garden beds, or to tuck them into planters on your patio. Remember here in Wisconsin we can still have snowstorms this time of year. But you can – and ...

Companion planting is a term with multiple meanings. Companion plants for ornamentals such as hydrangeas are selected for aesthetic purposes. In fruit and vegetable gardens, we select companion plants ...