This past spring, we adopted a new puppy, about a month after losing our beloved family dog. The new puppy was so small, she almost fit in the palm of my hand. Even so, she was capable of being quite ...

If there’s one plant that will survive neglect, even in the hands of the most inexperienced gardener, it is this innocuous beauty. It does great in sunny, shady, waterless, waterlogged and poor soil ...

Q: While visiting a friend I was admiring a groundcover bed she has. She called it “purpleheart,” and she said it’s a winter-hardy cousin to wandering Jew. How dependable is it? I’d like to plant some ...

Grown as a houseplant and as a groundcover for light shade, wandering Jew (Tradescantia zebrina) has silver and green foliage. Plants – native from Mexico to Colombia – spread rapidly on moist, ...

My daughter and I walked through the local garden center trying to find a plant we had admired on a front porch in our neighborhood. It had beautiful magenta and blue-green leaves that spilled from a ...