Learn how to grow flowering bugleweed, a shade-loving ground cover plant with dark foliage and blue or purple blooms.

Now that spring is here with longer days and warmer soil, most of us find the urge to get our hands dirty is nearly ...

Beloved for their late winter flowers, hellebores or Lenten roses produce thick, evergreen foliage in dense mounds reaching ...

Plant these perennials in containers once, then they’ll overwinter and return next summer for another year of beautiful ...

Another open water fishing season is set to open across Wisconsin. With it comes the dilemma how to maintain yards and ...

The genus Ajuga comprises over 40 species of herbaceous plants in the Lamiaceae family, valued for their rich repertoire of bioactive phytochemicals. Key constituents include phytoecdysteroids, ...

'To reduce weeding, ground cover is essential,' explains garden expert and author Sarah Raven. 'Plants like Alchemilla mollis ...

If you love your trees but hate that bare patch of dirt underneath, you’re not alone. Grass rarely grows well beneath trees thanks to shade and thirsty roots that soak up moisture. The good news? You ...

If you love seeing local butterfly species and hummingbirds visit your flowering plants or feeders, there's an easy way to make sure your garden is even more appealing to them. If you plant a mix of ...

“YOU DON’T notice the seeds in a blackberry until you’ve tried a seedless one,” says Tom Adams, the boss of Pairwise, a biotech company in North Carolina that is working on the first iteration of such ...

Where they live: Plants are found on every continent, even Antarctica, and every ocean. What they eat: Plants use sunlight for photosynthesis, which produces sugars that fuel them. Plants are an ...