Long-blooming native plants can bring color, structure, and life to garden beds far beyond the usual growing season, making them an excellent choice for gardeners who want vibrancy that lasts. There ...

Study authors used botanical records from over 100 years to explore how native wildflower bloom dates in Pennsylvania have ...

For many plants, pruning in late winter can ruin your flower display. But for these summer bloomers, it'll have the opposite ...

When we are living through the darkest, coldest weeks of winter, it is sometimes hard to imagine that spring will ever come. But every year, miraculously, it does. And this glorious shift to something ...

Spring brings the return of color to the garden as bulbs bloom, perennials re-emerge, and new annuals settle in. But there’s a less common category of plants that’s also worth knowing: native spring ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Spring is finally here! Everywhere you look, one can find some spring color around. Some of the first plants to peek out of the ground are spring-flowering bulbs like crocus, ...

A pinnacle goal for every gardener is to have a flower bed that dazzles all season long. Some green thumb energy and great weather certainly help in that department, but certain flowers bloom extra ...

To propagate amaryllis by seed, harvest the seedpods soon after they turn yellow and begin to break open. Dry the seed pods a ...

From the brightly-colored and ubiquitous ruby-throated hummingbird to the more elusive, mountain-inhabiting calliope hummingbird, there are many of these tiny, fluttering birds that spend spring and ...

Eastern spring beauty prefers moist, well-drained soil in part sun to shade. The plant can be easily grown in gardens and has edible tubers. Editor’s note: Once a month, OSU Extension Master Gardener ...