Brighten up your flower beds this year by planting a flower that blooms in cooler months, offering color next to your vibrant ...

From cool weather edibles and bare-root trees to flowering shrubs and summer annuals, these are the best plants to grow in ...

Violas are another cool-season favorite, and for good reason. They can survive temperatures well below freezing and are heat tolerant enough to last until mid-May. Their low, mounded growth habit ...

Q: Can you give some tips on how to survive this latest bout of heat? Is it simply too hot right now for plants? Is shade cloth the answer? A: It has been hot these past few weeks and very stressful ...

Turn kiddie heads with black-leafed plants like Aeonium 'Swartkop,' left, carrots that have "forked" to look like people with orange legs, center, or softball-sized purple ornamental onions ...

Plant pansies, dianthus, alyssum, viola, calendula and stock now, and they will continue to bloom through our mild winter with a big crescendo of flowers in March and April. (AP/Boris Grdanoski) Now ...

Every year, Louisiana gardeners see amazingly beautiful beds of pansies, violas, dianthus, snapdragons and many others whose peak blooming season is in late March through May. Wanting to create the ...

This cool weather has caused some unusual plant problems we normally do not see in the hot desert. One reader contacted me to let me know that his tomatoes were not quite the size of a tennis ball, ...

In the warmer months, it’s tempting to blast the air conditioner in an effort to stay cool. There’s a much cheaper, more environmentally friendly way to keep the temperature down in your house: plants ...

Cool Central and South Texas weather brings harvests by Thanksgiving; plant spinach and onions and protect citrus and tender ...

Some people are mainly interested in large animals such as deer, elk or bears. These animals are called mega-fauna and are a very popular group of animals. Others are fascinated with birds – small, ...