It’s easy to gloss over underrated plants when designing a yard, but as experts reveal, it’s both us and our gardens that are ...

As a dedicated gardener who has spent countless hours tending to plants in every season, I've developed a special appreciation for flowers that offer continuous blooms throughout the year. There's ...

Capitalize on every inch of your backyard, from sun to shade, with these ground cover ideas to fill otherwise empty areas.

Planting ground covers between pavers can add a delicate, organic element to your patios, walkways, and garden borders.

Growing your own basil lets you always have the fragrant herb on hand. But before you embark on your basil-growing journey, ...

For sun, there is the native twinflower with its diminutive twin purple flowers ... You may have this plant if you have a woodland garden; it has small twin dark green leaves, twin white flowers ...

Sandy, rocky soil and extreme heat will never phase ice plant, which originates from Africa. This ground cover will bloom all summer and fall ... Some are tinged with purple in winter. Creeping thyme ...

The chameleon plant (Houttuynia cordata) promises a splash of color with its vibrant, multicolored leaves, but it comes with a host of issues that make most gardeners regret planting it. While it ...

She notes that silver ponysfoot is also popular as a hanging plant or in a container where the leaves are ... low-maintenance ground cover that provides ample amounts of purple, pink, and white ...

sequester carbon dioxide and increase biodiversity above and below ground. "Cover plants are actually a kind of miracle tool in agriculture," says Prof Marie Muehe, head of the Plant ...

Their technology adds a thin coating around droplets as they are being sprayed onto a field, greatly reducing their tendency to bounce off leaves and end up wasted on the ground. Instead ...