We’ve asked the experts to help us determine exactly that, focusing on the annuals that deliver real bang for your buck and a few perennials for lasting value. Nasturtiums are incredibly easy to grow, ...

3. Vegetables: Beet, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, celery, collards, kohlrabi, lettuce, mustard, onion, peas, potato, radicchio, radish ...

A genuine perennial, though a half-hardy one, is the climbing T. tuberosum which produces fat knobbly tubers, rather like those of a Jerusalem artichoke, and is grown for food in South America where ...

This is also the right time to label and mark your perennials. First of all ... You don’t have to, but seeds of nasturtium, poppies, monarda, columbine and delphinium can be planted.

It would seem that it would be a simple matter to plan and plant a landscape/garden that the deer will ignore. Often, native plants serve well in deterring them too, but not always! Because, as bitter ...

After 20 years of growth, some of the ever-widening, 40-foot-tall Leyland cypress trees running along my backyard property ...

A fast-growing, aquatic perennial to 20cm in height, forming dense colonies of floating and submerged rooting stems and edible foliage. A popular salad crop with oval, wavy-edged rich dark green ...

Isabel Bannerman shares her thoughts on making a garden that makes people feel at home.

Eriko Uehara Hopkinson is a member of the Clew Bay Garden Trail. A chain of beautiful and unique private gardens, the trail ...

Filling the gap can be as simple as placing large containers of vining annuals (or tender perennials) on the soil under and between the trees. Climbing nasturtiums (Tropaeolum majus), purple bell ...

All those perennials you’ve been nursing along for years have been dutifully growing, and they occasionally benefit from ...