1. Using Whole Peels Improperly One of the biggest mistakes is simply tossing whole banana peels into the garden or compost heap. While they decompose, whole peels can take a long time to break down, ...

I love growing Banana plants. They're fast growers, very low maintenance, and they create a stunning energy both when grown as a houseplant or as an outdoor plant in the garden. The longer you grow ...

How do you build the next generation of natural performance materials without pretending cotton or synthetics will disappear?

Some early-season flowers are already blooming at the Denver Botanic Gardens, and for Coloradans visiting the grounds, it's a ...

MacCubbin gives gardening advice for Central Florida on assessing damage from recent freeze, mulch from ornamental grasses, palms and azaleas ...

During the spring, many people are tempted to give their plants a haircut to get them ready for the season. But some plants don’t respond well to being pruned in the spring. Here are four plants you ...

Banana Ball players from all six teams reported to Historic Grayson Stadium in Savannah, Georgia today for Spring Training. In a little over a month, the first games of the Banana Ball season will ...

How much damage can deer do to edibles or new plants? Here's Ann Lovejoy's tips on what fencing may be most effective.

IT may still be the bleak mid-winter, but January is an important gardening month to prepare for the spring ahead. This is because what happens in vegetable beds now can make all the difference to how ...

February is a quiet, in-between month in the garden. The days are gradually getting longer and the birdsong louder, but spring is not quite ready to arrive. Many trees and shrubs will still be in ...