Summer has made a steamy, muggy and hot entrance. The warm weather and holiday weekend brought many visitors to the reservoir ...

Cotoneasters (Cotoneaster spp.) are hardy, fire-resistant shrubs characterized by their thick, moisture-retaining leaves and low, spreading growth habit, which reduces flame height. Ranging from ...

Q • My irises didn’t bloom well this year, and a friend recommended that I divide them. When is the best time to do that? Any ...

Fall might seem like the wrong time to think about spring flowers, but it's actually perfect. Many spring-blooming bulbs and ...

A wide variety of insects in midsummer can chew petals (and foliage), which include many species of beetles, grasshoppers, ...

Vibrant colors decorate ponds and water gardens across North Carolina. Water lilies are in bloom, and they’re the July Plant of the Month. Horticulture Agent Taylor Jones shows you ...

“It’s very soothing,” says Jarboe, 70. His Town and Country garden, which features a bridge, a Mayan temple, a bocce ball ...

Most conversations about plants in ponds revolve around how to remove or prevent them from growing there. In these situations ...

While July gardening chores revolve around watering, weeding, deadheading and helping plants through the heat, those chores might include transplanting bearded iris and watching for powdery mildew on ...

Here's why you should avoid the afternoon for watering your plants and better times to water them instead—save your plants and money at the same time.

Woodcliff Lake now has four new floating wetland islands to eliminate algae in one of Veolia North America's reservoirs along the Hackensack River.

John Lortz of Upper Sandusky has cultivated an extensive iris garden over the past three years. The garden features a variety of tall bearded irises, obtained through trades and borrowing, along ...