While fall is the season that mums pop up in garden shops, there's a better alternative: bright, colorful ornamental cabbage, ...

With leaves featuring vivid streaks of red, orange, yellow and green, crotons are another quintessential plant for autumn.

Starbucks fans anticipate the release of its winter menu, and winter holiday-themed cups, every year -- but, looking back, ...

As leaves mature, they take on the sea green color of the ordinary, non-variegated versions of these species. Moving on to ...

Companion plants can be grown in such a way that each plant supports the other. Strawberries, as it happens, are friends with ...

Although the chemistry of autumn colours is well understood, there is an ongoing debate among scientists about why trees evolved their vivid autumn colours in the first place.

The first frost of the season sends most gardeners scrambling to cover tender plants, but cabbage? It just shrugs and keeps on growing. Tough, resilient, and surprisingly adaptable, cabbage is the ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: Fruit. Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) is a cold-hardy member of the daisy family whose flower clusters consist of multiple florets, each of which produces ...

In a world increasingly focused on sustainability and self-sufficiency, homeowners and landscape designers are rethinking the traditional garden. Gone are the days when ornamental plants were chosen ...

Keep your garden blooming into autumn with these six colourful, low-maintenance plants that add warmth, fragrance and charm ...

Deer have an aversion to plants that are overly fragrant, fuzzy, thorny, or poisonous, explains Alex Kantor, owner at Perfect Plants Nursery. The Bridal Wreath Spirea shrub—a low-maintenance plant ...

Strawberries are a perfect plant for containers, especially hanging containers. They look gorgeous with the fruit drooping ...