The rose may be an icon, but it often gets a bad reputation as a plant that demands a lot of care. In reality, many roses are landscape-worthy shrubs that don’t require constant devotion. Some of the ...

Rose of Sharon is a shrub or small tree that blooms with abandon from midsummer until frost. Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sunflowers, herbs, and many other plants are easy to propagate. You can multiply them by sowing seeds, dividing bulbs and tubers, ...

“If you don’t know where you are going, you are going to end up somewhere else.” This sage adage, credited to Yogi Berra, pinpoints the importance of planning. If you are a novice gardener and you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve always wanted to roses but have heard they’re fussy, try growing Knock Out Roses! Knock Out Roses are a cultivar ...

Roses are the flowers of romance, and can grow well in Iowa with relatively little maintenance. Learn which roses are hardy and disease resistant for your Iowa garden. Roses have been loved by many ...

This time of year is when lots of roses are available as bare-root plants which makes them less expensive to purchase and easier to plant. Roses get potted up in late February at most nurseries and ...

Another hotter-than-normal summer has our landscape plants struggling to sweat it out – some more so than others. Like people, plants don’t cope equally well with excess heat. Ones native to the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As we near the busy outdoor gardening season, it’s time to stop and smell the roses. As cliché as this sounds, there’s no time like the present to consider ...

Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) is a woody, deciduous shrub that goes the extra mile when it comes to flowering. This easy-to-grow shrub or small tree begins unfurling its showy white, pink, or ...