Discover how to use hostas to prevent weeds, with professional tips for why hostas make great ground cover plants, and how to ...

These 51 flowering ground cover plants can transform your garden by adding color texture and life to bare areas while being easy to grow and maintain making them perfect for beginners and experienced ...

The Garden Conference with Topeka Common Ground runs 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28 at the Washburn Tech Conference ...

Gro-Low sumac (Rhus aromatica ‘Gro-Low’) is a selection of a fragrant sumac, made by Synnestvedt Nursery in Illinois. This ...

Planting cover crops in winter gives your garden a boost. These crops, like rye, clover, and oats, keep your soil covered and ...

Beetles are among the most diverse and numerous insects on the planet, and if you’re a gardener, you’ve likely encountered them in your yard.

But snow cover provides a heavy blanket of winter mulch that insulates the soil, prevents heat from escaping and keeps soil ...

The tomatoes and peppers go where we get the most sun, while lettuce does fine in mostly shade. The shade creates a somewhat cooler microclimate, with the result that the lettuce plants produce ...

The plants capture and store carbon in the soil, promote healthy soil by preventing compaction and can make the air cooler on ...

While I still have winter gook on much of my yard, I did get melt in the sunnier parts. Some of my pansies actually look OK, ...

“Millions of birds will migrate through the Mississippi Flyway to Louisiana as early as February through March, with peak migration mid to late April,” said Jane Patterson, president and education ...

Before you toss that empty jam jar or those used coffee grounds, take a moment. What you see as trash could be treasure in ...