Planting in the fall can set your garden up for spring success. From bold peonies to earthy stonecrop, there's a range of ...

Hand holding a ripe cucumber in garden - so vv/Shutterstock If you're used to growing cucumbers in your garden, you must know how vulnerable they can be to damage from pests like aphids and beetles.

Master Gardener Bob Eister worked red yarrow into his landscape at his home in Canfield. (Submitted photo) My family moved into a newly built home near Canfield in 1997. We had always established ...

As the vibrant colors of summer and autumn fade from our gardens, it’s easy to assume that all outdoor life has gone dormant.

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium), a plucky plant that people all over the world have used for thousands of years for its medicinal benefits, tempts many gardeners to include it in their landscapes. But ...

Planting flower strips in a field with at least two species can increase the number of natural enemies of pests by 70 percent. The more flower species, the better the effect, according to a new ...

Chokecherry trees (Prunus virginiana) are small, hardy, and native to North America. An extremely cold-hardy, ...

Deer have an aversion to plants that are overly fragrant, fuzzy, thorny, or poisonous, explains Alex Kantor, owner at Perfect ...

As temperatures cool down, the garden seems to come alive again, especially with the recent rains. Dahlias, zinnias, and ...

Q. “We just moved to Riverside County near Lake Mathews. The weather is very hot in the summer (three months of 95-103 degree heat) and can get frosty in winter. It is a rural area with lots of ...

They may look good in the landscape, but are they, in fact, useful? This is a subject of frequent debate. In recent years, flower strips along fields and ditches have become popular both in Denmark ...