If your yard is known for standing water and occasional draining problems, you're limited in what you can plant. Thankfully ...

​Starting plants from seed feels like the most natural and conventional way of growing plants, whether they are flowers, vegetables or herbs. After all, that’s how plants grow in nature, right? But ...

What looks like a plant’s failed fruit may actually be a clever deal that lets both the plant and its pollinating beetles ...

Flowers: Cape jewels (Nemesia caerulea) are a perennial that would like to bloom throughout the year but are held back by hot summer weather. Its suitability to our climate stems from its origin in ...

Strawberry flowers but no fruit? Learn the simple pollination step with a soft brush that transforms fading blossoms into bowls of ripe berries.

Walk through a tropical rainforest, and you quickly notice a pattern in the fruits growing around you. Most are red, orange, ...

A popular product used by home fruit-tree growers in days past was a spray known as “dormant oil.” Gardeners would apply the ...

Americans spend over $10 billion a year on lawn and garden fertilizers, and most backyard gardeners never question whether ...

There are many factors that affect how well a dogwood tree blooms. Learn seven reasons your dogwood tree might not be blooming or producing many flowers this year.

While more than 90% of food is imported in the Cayman Islands, farmers and chefs are beginning to reclaim the soil. From bustling markets to backyard farms, a fragile but flourishing food movement is ...

MANY of you will have heat mats, propagation sets and windowsills heaving with seedlings ready to pot on. But if you’re more ...

Sunlight is the biggest factor in choosing where to put your garden. Most produce wants at least six hours of sunlight per day. If sunny spots are few, save them for fruiting plants because leafy ...