You step outside to marvel at your landscape, trying to enjoy its beauty before the season ends. While some shrubs only bring ...

This beautiful shrub produces bright red berries but it comes at a cost. A non-native shrub, its berries are known to be ...

DEAR GARDEN COACH: I am a teacher who is putting in a native garden and want to use it to teach about pollinators, habitat and Native American uses of plants. We will be starting with shrubs and I ...

Deep roots make the soil more stable and help it stay fertile. They also soak up water, reducing runoff and keeping nutrients ...

The holiday season is adorned with poinsettias, holly and mistletoe, but it is not well known that some of these species are ...

Before, during, and after the 2024 drought, eco-gardeners from Croton-on-Hudson-based PLAN it WILD found themselves in especially high demand—experts at the sustainable landscaping company planted ...

Clyde, North Carolina has seen devastating damage from extreme storms over the past twenty years — Helene, in 2024, was just the most recent. Repeated rains from named storms like Ivan and Francis in ...

Organizers say the goal isn’t to turn beginners into botanists overnight, but to “plant the seed of ecological literacy” — helping residents recognize that knowing and valuing native plants is the ...

A new book on California native plants has hit the shelves, opening the door for interested gardeners wishing to learn more about our local flora. Trend- spotters agree that interest in native plants ...