When the fall months arrive, you're probably thinking about putting your garden to bed for the winter. Many of the flowers and crops are done growing for the year, but your work in the garden doesn't ...

Every year, Martha and I grow dozens of poppy varieties. These must-have flowers are easy to grow and last for many years in the garden, attracting pollinators like bees and butterflies. We grow them ...

Above are the first few lines from the well-known poem, “In Flanders Field.” A Canadian soldier, John McCrae, serving during World War I wrote the poem. At the time, he was stationed in the Belgian ...

In search of orange-flowered perennials for my orange and blue Illini garden, Oriental poppies (Papaver orientale) were a natural choice. The plants I used in my Illini garden were divided off a large ...

In search of orange-flowered perennials for my orange and blue Illini garden, Oriental poppies (Papaver orientale) were a natural choice. The plants I used in my Illini garden were divided off a large ...

It’s about to happen: That one morning in the third or fourth week of October, when you wake up and the air feels different — cool, maybe a bit damp … and you know fall is here. • Cut melons when the ...