You might almost admire them, if they weren’t eating your roses. That flash of metallic green and copper catching the July morning light — genuinely jewel-like, if we are being honest with ourselves — is beautiful for precisely the half second before you count them….
A rule finalized Friday eliminates a 50-year-old regulatory definition that treated habitat destruction as harm to protected species — a change that legal groups say conflicts with a 1995 Supreme Court ruling and will face immediate court challenges from at least two major environmental organizations…
Most gardeners sow foxglove, hollyhock, and sweet william in spring, right alongside their annuals. That’s exactly why so many of them never bloom. These are biennials — sow them in spring, and all you get by autumn is a rosette of leaves and a long…
I’m so excited because my English lavender is starting to bloom right now! Soon my garden will fill with its intoxicating fragrance, generous flower spikes and loads of bee, butterflies and other pollinators! If you too have this magical shrub in your garden, then you…
The moment those towering delphinium petals drop, your hands probably itch to grab the pruners and slice that fading stalk right down to the dirt. I completely understand the craving for a spotless flower bed. But taking a sharp blade and shearing a hollow botanical…
Did you enjoy your ball-like decorative allium blooms this year? From white to burgundy via blue and all shades of purple, from small to 12-inch large, their inflorescences are hard to miss in a garden… But my real question is: do you want another spectacular…
Why do some lilacs completely steal the show every spring? Is it because of some secret fertilizer? The perfect soil? Or maybe they just like the neighbor’s garden better than yours? Whichever the reason, if your shrub gave you nothing but a quiet mountain of…
Senate Bill 734, signed in 2014, gave wildlife officers a powerful new legal weapon against black-market harvesting. Arrests and convictions have followed — but poaching continues to drain populations of a plant found nowhere else on Earth. For years, wildlife enforcement officers in North Carolina’s…
My father had a strange habit… He used to take “twigs” from plants he found everywhere, out of gates, in the countryside etc. Why? He filled our half acre garden virtually using only soft wood cuttings! And spring is the ideal season to do it….
In a state where outdoor irrigation swallows a majority of all residential water use, Utah officials are betting that direct cash will do what drought restrictions and public-service announcements could not. They want homeowners to treat their front yards like the high desert they actually…