As most gardeners know, winter is an opportunity to enjoy certain aspects of a dormant garden: evergreens, interesting bark, berries, and other cool-weather features. Even in the coldest climates, ...

Susan Spradley, a volunteer for California Botanic Garden's Native Designs group, assembles a bouquet made from native foliage and flowers, including glossy hollyleaf cherry branches and sunflowers, ...

Experts reveal the best native plants to feed birds in winter, including shrubs and perennials that can provide valuable food for birds through the cold months ...

If your favorite hobbies are best spent in the fresh air, then you're likely itching to get back outside once a rainstorm has ...

With each new gardening season, more people are becoming interested in native plants. This is because more people are being educated about the importance of these plants. Native plants are ones that ...

Ever walk into a garden center and spot something new you just have to take home? This year, plant selections are getting a ...

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 ...

The Buffalo Niagara River Land Trust (BNRLT) is holding its next installment of the speaker series Conservation Conversations, featuring Ken Parker on The Best Native Plants for WNY Gardens. During ...

Welcome to April, the month of renewal, when we honor the Earth with her own day — April 22 — much like Mom on Mother’s Day (don’t panic, that’s not until May 11). If only we could restore the Earth ...

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 ...