Technically speaking, the aster family is a botanical crazy quilt of composite bloomers (plants whose inflorescences contain ...

Much has been written about the value of including asters in your garden as a late-season source of food for pollinators. For this reason, I have included several in mine. However, there is one that ...

Is this yellow aster? Several of my coneflowers just had brown cones; they didn’t bloom. Can I cut down the plants now or do ...

What Is a Native Plant? Native plants are species that would naturally exist in an area without human introduction. They’ve ...

Since the beginning of the phenomenon readers now know as the Lightlark series, Alex Aster has understood how her story ends.

The plants are sometimes present in the thousands, and they can produce a brilliant floral display in the fall.

While you may want birds visiting your garden, there's an invasive weed species that could cause them to overstay their ...

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s slim new book, “The Serviceberry,” is a meditation on communing with nature and cultivating connections with one another.

Cuttings from woody plants like hydrangeas, roses, herbs and more is a great way to enhance your yard this time of year.

Bradford pears have notoriously weak crotches (branch angles). Think of your index and middle fingers forming a “V” for ...

The UK is used to wet weather, however, people have been warned to incorporate flood-tolerant plants in their gardens this ...