Every gardener starts somewhere, and if green thumbs run in your family you may have learned a few gardening skills—or even developed a lifelong love for gardening—from your parents or grandparents.

I have learned so much from my rose garden through the years. I have learned about roses, the insects in my garden and the value of companion planting. Interestingly, rose gardens and life teach us ...

When I was a newbie gardener, I wish I had known to focus on a few key items. Learning the plants to use for the part of the country where one lives and the place in the garden that they will be ...

Legendary football coach Vince Lombardi once said, "Mistakes are lessons by which we learn. When you learn the lesson, forget the mistake." Well, one of the many mistakes I've made over the years is ...

Many of us will probably be spending some time in our gardens this summer. The garden can be so many things to us – a quiet place, a healing dose of well-being, or an inspiration. If we are quiet, our ...

People see shade in the garden as a curse because it cuts down on the flower display, but a cultivated woodland garden is about as sublime a place as I can imagine. To succeed, the woodland garden ...

Like gardening in general, school gardening has become hugely popular during the pandemic, with families and teachers saying its hands-on lessons can be applied to many subjects. Finding the expertise ...

As our garden season winds down, I’m already reflecting upon the lessons I learned this year and how I can build upon them so my 2022 garden will perform much better. I don’t think anyone could have ...

My college physics class was not exactly one of my favorites, but I clearly recall one pivotal moment in that class when I sat up and took notice. That ah-ha moment paved the way for the rest of that ...

In a recent interview with Time magazine, CIA Director Porter Goss was asked a very important question. After dispensing with topics like catching Osama bin Laden and dealing with the insurgency in ...

Like gardening in general, school gardening has become hugely popular during the pandemic, with families and teachers saying its hands-on lessons can be applied to many subjects. Finding the expertise ...