Once there’s even a hint of spring in the air, such as longer days with more sunshine or the plaintive song of the black-capped chickadee, it’s time to look for ephemeral wildflowers. In fact, by now ...

Back in the spring, I had a column about pruning spring-blooming plants. Always prune them after they finish blooming. This is because they set their flower and vegetative buds for next year during ...

If they get too stressed or dry, they won't set as many buds. Encore, or repeat-blooming, azaleas are beginning to produce new blooms now and should continue through fall. No more pruning should be ...

The next few weeks are some of the year’s best for pruning landscape plants – mainly woody-stemmed ones that already have bloomed for the year, as well as most needled evergreens. Spring-blooming ...

Nothing brightens up a home’s curb appeal quite like a flowering tree with brightly-colored spring or summertime blooms. But while most flowering trees produce white or pink flowers, if you’re looking ...

Think for a moment about spring flowers, and likely two of the most common to come to mind are daffodils (Narcissus) and tulips (Tulipa). Even nongardeners are likely to know these flowers, and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As we enter the fall season, gardeners consider planting selected bulbs for enjoyment as they bloom in the spring. This column opens with a brief overview of ...

Is there anyone more full of hope and faith than a gardener? After all, it is a leap of faith to plant fall bulbs in the chill of November for the dream of spring blooms. And yet every year this is ...

Ensure a stunning spring garden by avoiding these bulb-planting blunders. Planting spring-blooming bulbs like daffodils, snowdrops, hyacinths, and tulips in the fall is easy, but there are a few ...

Pennsylvania’s climate is perfect for growing spring-blooming bulbs. We have plenty of winter cold for favorites such as tulips and daffodils to get their needed “chill” time, then we usually have a ...

The National Cherry Blossom Festival opens this Sunday in D.C. Cherry blossom season has officially begun in Japan, with the full bloom to arrive this weekend amid rising temperatures. The cherry ...