It’s how organic gardener Lisa Ziegler grows healthy, prolific crops at her cut-flower farm in southeastern Virginia. For more than a decade, Ziegler has cultivated fields of flowers, harvesting ...

“Floret Farm’s Discovering Dahlias: A Guide to Growing and Arranging Magnificent Blooms” by Erin Benzakein, Julie Chai and Jill Jorgensen with photographs by Chris Benzakein ($24.95, Chronicle Books): ...

New gardeners have no need to reinvent the wheelbarrow — the best advice can be gleaned from years of experience, shared ...

Pansies could be the perfect wallflower — quiet, unassuming, blend-into-the-backdrop plants — of the garden. Not for Brenna Estrada, though. She’s researched their history, grown and sold them ...

•“The Well-Tended Perennial Garden” by Tracy DiSabato-Aust. Timber Press. 383 pages. $34.95. Flower-bed maintenance is not a topic most people embrace as good reading. But this book possesses so much ...

Lucille Martin of Martinsburg worked with nine photographers on her book, “Lucille’s Floristry and Flower Garden.” Courtesy photo April showers bring May flowers, which will be followed in June with ...

NORTHWEST GARDEN writers are coming on strong this spring, with books on everything from free-range chickens to crafting a pergola of plumbing pipes. Gardening is nothing if not local, so you can be ...

Once upon a time, almost a century ago, two sisters from an illustrious Chinese family lived in a lush estate known as the Flower Fragrant Garden, in China’s southeast coastal city of Fuzhou. Then ...