With days growing shorter and crisp autumn weather just around the corner, there’s no better time to get started on end-of-summer gardening tasks to prepare your garden for a fall harvest. Even if ...

There really is nothing quite like the scent of roses drifting through the air on a warm summer's day, especially when it's coming from your own garden. So if you're tempted to add more roses to your ...

For gardeners and plant people of all sorts who live in the Coachella Valley, summer is a trying time. While many edibles and ornamentals can be grown through the area's mellow winters and can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Butterflies land on pink and orange flowers planted in front of a home - Susan Lavender/Getty Images The butterflies, bees, and ...

Hot summer sun can scorch plant leaves, cause stems to wilt, and leave garden soil bone dry. Knowing how to water your plants correctly in summer is just one way to help your garden withstand the heat ...

As summer winds down, long stretches of sunlight are dwindling and cooler temperatures are on the horizon. Gardening enthusiasts may wonder how they can manage their backyard gardens as the peak ...

This week’s jarring arrival of searing heat puts us at the doorstep of our traditionally two hottest months of the year — that time of the growing season when plants and lawns can bake at near ...

As the U.S. summer begins each year in June, trees, flowers and native plants in gardens throughout our communities begin to come to life. And the mass of miscrospores we call pollen that is floating ...

September days invite a simple flock of goldfinch fledglings to splash about the bubbling bird bath here in my garden. They are a reminder that summer is closing and autumn is on its way. There is ...

Tomorrow will be Aug. 1 which means we will be down to the last month of summer. Our spring gardens were gorgeous but as happens every year, their blooms have faded in the heat. With their fading ...