Another major benefit lies in ginger’s anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties that may help prevent chronic illnesses ...

Gingers produce thick, fleshy stems that grow at or just below the soil. With a good, thick mulch of leaves or pine straw, ...

What kind of soil are you planting into? If it’s very steep, each hole will have to have a curb or bumper on the bottom side, ...

The lawn between the sidewalk and road, called a hellstrip due to its seemingly inhospitable growing environment, can be ...

If used for preserving or candying, the rhizomes should be dug while tender and succulent, rather than when old, tough and ...

Wild ginger (Asarum canadense) is an increasingly popular choice for gardens thanks to its attractive heart-shaped foliage, shade tolerance, and mild ginger fragrance. The North American native ...

One hundred ninety-two plants were sectioned into flowers, leaves, stems and rhizomes and analyzed for NPK. The fertilizer rate 182-21-331 was statistically superior in the number of stems with open ...

Maybe I’ve been exposed to too many great ideas at flowers shows and botanic gardens around the world, but traditional ways of sorting plants by genre are blurred to me.

Many of our garden plants are edible as well as ornamental – they’re edimentals. And as our flower beds start bursting into life here in Scotland, we should now enjoy their fresh young ...

What’s new: Your recently imported ornamental tree might have a stowaway spider or lizard hidden in its branches, a recent study warns. What’s more, these accidentally transported wildlife can ...

The Garden Guy wondered if an ornamental onion or allium hybrid with landscape beauty attract pollinators? Serendipity performed up to the task in every way.