Once there’s even a hint of spring in the air, such as longer days with more sunshine or the plaintive song of the black-capped chickadee, it’s time to look for ephemeral wildflowers. In fact, by now ...

You can bring a taste of the forest to your garden by planting a few of the wildflowers that bloom in spring in our native woods. Many woodland plants flower in early spring to take advantage of the ...

It’s late winter and soon we will start (if we haven’t already!) seeing the very earliest blooming ephemeral spring flowers, such as snowdrops and winter aconites. Ephemerals are plants that will ...

The next few weeks are some of the year’s best for pruning landscape plants – mainly woody-stemmed ones that already have bloomed for the year, as well as most needled evergreens. Spring-blooming ...

If they get too stressed or dry, they won't set as many buds. Encore, or repeat-blooming, azaleas are beginning to produce new blooms now and should continue through fall. No more pruning should be ...

It’s nice to look around outside and once again see green instead of brown. The green is a combination of trees putting out leaves and others covered with flower buds. If you have a good tree ...

With spring just around the corner, Brooklyn is gearing up for a spectacular display of cherry blossoms, including the borough’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery. The landmark burial ground was founded in ...

Back in the spring, I had a column about pruning spring-blooming plants. Always prune them after they finish blooming. This is because they set their flower and vegetative buds for next year during ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! There is still time to plant some spring flowering bulbs. You can plant spring-blooming bulbs such as daffodils, tulips, crocus, and hyacinth when ground ...