Editor’s note: John Nelson is retiring. This is his final Mystery Plant column. You could call this the “spiny green ping-pong ball plant” if you wanted, and why not? John Nelson is a ...

You could call this the “spiny, green, ping-pong ball plant” if you wanted, and why not? It is actually (although absent in southern Florida), often forming stands along pond and stream edges ...

The design situates an excellent plant collection perfectly within the natural landscape. There are lawns and sculpted yews ...

The rhododendrons, which flourish in the cool night air captured in the ravines between the rocky terrain, and nearby thickets of mountain laurel bloom in the late summer to create a spectacular wild ...

Handle these essential lawn care tasks after it rains to keep your yard looking its best. From soil care to weed control, ...

Big Rapids, Michigan, book club, Novel Tea, will be discussing 'The Seed Keeper' by Diane Wilson at 3 p.m. Nov. 21 at Artworks, 106 N. Michigan Ave.

Urbana named a Best Hometown in Ohio by Ohio Magazine! Unless you’ve been out of town or under a rock, you no doubt have ...

It is no surprise that hummingbird mint attracts hummingbirds to many gardens. Here are the flowers you should grow nearby to ...

Feeling left out because you only have a small garden? Don’t. There is a dwarf version of the umbrella plant called Darmera ...

The family of plants that asters belong to is generally called the sunflower ... crowned and white-throated sparrows eating ...

Paragon Veterinary Group has become the first winner of the Royal Horticultural Society’s new national Sustainable Gardening Award, for the wellbeing ...