In our climate, many plants add winter interest in the form of flowers, fragrance, and colourful berries, bark and foliage.

Get a headstart on a vibrant spring garden with these fast-growing flowers. Sow them in the cold winter months to ensure an ...

Left to their own accord, seeds would drop to the ground in late summer or autumn, survive winter, then germinate when the ...

When plants come up, they can be grown under fluorescent lights or next to a sunny window until frost is done for the season ...

Winter cold actually aids germination of some seeds. They will fare poorly if planted too late. It's advisable to plant seeds of California poppy, bread seed poppy, larkspur, nigella and bachelors ...

By Felder Rushing Gardening Columnist Winter weather’s effects on the garden getting to you? Not this jaded horticulturist, ...

I can feel spring trying to squeeze its way back in. I couldn’t be more excited about some warm, sunshiny days. The past few weeks have been normal enough for the pansies and other fall plants to make ...

"It’s been a disruptive start to February, and this onslaught of winter storms is expected to stick around for most of the month," AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jon Porter said. He warned of a ...

Winter was, unfortunately, just taking a quick nap, and now it is about to wake back up as cold air starts to seep southward into the country once again. If you were taken in by the promise of ...

It’s winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and for many people that means having the spotlight on your body’s largest organ—skin. In cold climates the skin can become substantially drier ...

Roses are hardy and very suited to our climate but there are some common problems that you may have come across. Black spot is the bugbear of many a rose grower so before the season gets started ...