AS WE PREPARE for the arrival of autumn (Sunday, Sept. 22, at 5:43 a.m.), many of our garden plants and flowers are beginning ...

WHETHER they’re the size of a teacup or a dinner plate, Dahlia’s have become one of the UK’s most popular plants. And it’s no wonder – not only are they still flowering now – with a ...

Dear Helen: The dahlias that have grown and bloomed in my garden have remained in the ground for several years ... I usually make a mound of soil over each dahlia clump and, for easy visibility ...

Anticipation is half the fun when gardening. Since November is the best time to plant bulbs in the San Joaquin Valley, it’s a ...

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Anticipation is half the fun when gardening. Since November is the best time to plant bulbs in the San Joaquin Valley, it’s a ...

Greener cities: a necessity or a luxury? Robinson questions whether just planting trees is the solution to deforestation. Although tree-planting initiatives have been going on since the Second ...

While you may be ready for fall, start planting sparingly. September has been known to be hot and dry, and pansies in particular will get leggy if exposed to too much heat. Pumpkins will be ...

More than 1.9 million trees were planted in the Northern Forest last year in the biggest planting season so far for the project, conservationists said. It is the largest number of trees planted in ...

As gardeners, I think we are programmed to complain about the weather. It has been hot and dry the last week or so, but if we are being honest, we have had a fairly mild summer with intermittent ...