In the summer of 2020, my husband, Ryan, and I bought a house in Portland, Ore., with a sizable backyard containing little ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A patch of common foxglove bloom in a garden. - Photos From Japan, Asia And Othe Of The World/Getty Images With its tall spikes of ...

Filling your garden with native wildflowers is a great way to attract beneficial pollinators. This star-shaped flower with a ...

If you love flowers that are easy to grow, native plants are a great choice. Not only are the blooms beautiful, but they’re useful too. Native flowers are specially designed to support our local ...

Attention, anyone who thinks native blooms are brilliant in the wild — or our yards — but don’t work in bouquets. Boy, are we wrong. This isn’t an invitation to trample wildflower fields to pick ...

Fruits and vegetables need plenty of nutrients and water to thrive in a garden. California native plants prefer unamended soils and need little water once they’re established. Separation is the key to ...

Native flower gardens offer plenty of environmental benefits, so it's no surprise that we're seeing more pop up throughout our neighborhoods in the South. A true native flower garden will always have ...

Overland Park is updating city codes to make space for planned native landscapes, which have long been banned as "weeds." That could mean front yard gardens featuring milkweed, blue sage, native ...

The weather is cooling down quickly and chrysanthemums are front and center in every garden center to celebrate the changing season. There’s no doubt that mums are a very popular fall flower, but ...

The recent boom in native-plant interest focuses mainly on trees, shrubs, grasses, and perennial flowers – by far the main workhorse plants of Pennsylvania landscapes. But even with the diversity ...

Cincinnati Nature Center's Cory Christopher shares how to keep your garden within local regulations.

Welcome to the October edition of the L.A. Times Plants newsletter, with a list of this month’s plant-related activities and upcoming events. But first, let’s celebrate one of my favorite things about ...