False asphodel, a flower that grows in the high-altitude wetlands of western North America, gets much of its nutrients from eating insects. Western false asphodel has pretty white flowers and hairs on ...

Add native mountain mint plants to your pollinator garden. The flowers attract bees and butterflies and deer steer clear.

Sow seeds outside in late fall or early spring. Start seeds indoors about a month before outside temperatures are expected to reach 50°F. Keep the seeds warm until they germinate, and moist but never ...

Flower, plant and coffee shop Bloomsgiving is soft opening its second location in Redwood City this weekend. Courtesy Jessica Han. Plant lovers and coffee lovers, this one’s for you. Mountain ...

Pennsylvania's state flower is the mountain laurel.Gov. Gifford Pinchot chose it more than 90 years ago. The General Assembly passed two bills, each naming a different favorite shrub – mountain laurel ...

One annoying thing about planting flowers? It could take up to a year for blooms to show. But with these 16, you could enjoy ...

Although mountain laurel is Pennsylvania’s state flower, I rarely see it growing in our area. In fact, locally I know of just one small shrub growing out of a rock formation above French Creek near ...

The poinsettia plant is associated with Christmas in many parts of the world, as is the decorated fir tree. Here in Hawaii, we can grow this member of the Euphorbia genus and her cousin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flowering shrubs aren't just for adding beauty to your garden. They're wonderful attractors of important pollinators, and they can ...

Spring pruning can rejuvenate many types of plants and make way for fresh leafy growth. However, there are some spring-blooming plants that you should never prune until after their flowers have faded.

An unusually warm winter caused early blooms, but garden center owner Mike Spencer says you don’t need to panic.