Whatever your planting style, deciding what to put in winter containers means you need to get creative with your choices. Your efforts will be totally on show as there's usually so little competition ...

With the lack of plant growth and color, wintertime can sometimes have a dismal effect on our yards and gardens. Even though the season of brightly lit evergreens and greenery is right around the ...

Q. I have two half barrels at the entrance to my patio home that get sun until around 2 p.m. during the summer months. The annual flowers I'd planted were looking pretty shaggy so I took your advice, ...

GRACE HENSLEY IS a garden coach specializing in container design (Fashionplants.com). Hensley knows the power of planting and styling an entry (or a patio, or balcony, or pool deck) to create a ...

Winter is the dormant season for many gardens, but you can still boost curb appeal with front porch pots. Choose the right plants and you can create gorgeous mixes for winter containers. Many magical ...

If you’re an avid gardener, the prospect of so many weeks of drab winter without a garden to enjoy can seem dismal. That’s when containers of colorful plant combinations, placed on the porch, patio or ...

As I was browsing through the garden center this weekend, I saw a display of pansies for the fall and winter seasons. Pansies are tough plants that will perform all through the fall and winter in our ...

Perennials for cool season containers may seem like the proverbial horticultural oxymoron, but that is exactly what I have been planting the last few days in my zone 8a landscape. My favorite pansy ...

It’s either time — or nearly time — to start seeds indoors for the upcoming growing season, depending on where you live. But what about starting them outdoors, despite the frozen ground, whipping ...

The Rocket selection is a longtime favorite with plants that reach 2.5 feet tall with lots of colors including white, yellow, red, pink, violet and purple. They make good cut flowers but are top heavy ...