5 things to do in the garden this week: 1. Fruit trees. Now is the time to order bare-root fruit trees. You will receive the trees sometime between this winter and next spring. A bare root tree is dug ...

If you're searching for a stunning perennial herb for your cutting garden, look no further than pineapple sage (Salvia elegans). Native to the forest edges of the Sierra Madre del Sur in Mexico and ...

Gardeners love growing multi-purpose plants, and it's not every day you find tropical fragrance, blooms that charm wildlife, and edible features wrapped up in one package. That's why pineapple sage ...

Hellebores are commonly called Christmas Rose or Lenten Rose, but there are actually more than twenty or so species and many new hybrids. This particular one is Helleborus niger ‘Josef Lemper’, a ...

Turning our backyards into butterfly safe havens can involve a list of selfless gardening acts. So, it's especially nice when one of those decisions also provides us with delicious ingredients for ...

Q: I found the new leaves on my pineapple sage all twisted and discolored. What would do that? A: A number of insects with piercing, sucking mouthpieces could do that. In this case it was whiteflies.