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Tree Guide: a great guide to help you decide what to plant

Tree Guide: a great guide to help you decide what to plant

16 Invasive Species Sold at Garden Centers You Should Never Buy

These 16 invasive species of plants are commonly sold at garden centers - beware of them and DO NOT buy them from your garden store!

Top 10 Plants You Can't Kill

Tough as nails, but they're pretty, too. Turn your black thumb into a green thumb with our picks for the top 10 plants you can't kill.

13 Trees You Should Never Plant In Your Yard

13 Trees You Should Never Plant In Your Yard For most people, the end of summer and approach of autumn means cooler temperatures, harvest time for crops, a

10 Best Plants for Container Gardening

Container gardening continues to be hot. Homeowners like that containers are easy to maintain. Here are 11 of the best plants for container gardening.

Green shoots: how veganism is changing gardening

Giving up animal products this year? If so, you might want to rethink how you garden

DIY Holiday Bird Feeder

One of my favorite things to do on a lazy Saturday afternoon is to sit by the window with a cup of tea and watch the birds. Recently, my oldest daughter helped me make these festive pine cone bird feeders to encourage our feathered friends to visit more often. And because it’s the holiday season, we adorned our bird fe

Photos: The Barn Nursery is more than plants, gardening supplies

Barn Nursery leaders recently started ramping up their social media efforts with Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Learn to read a nursery plant tag

FALLBROOK - Shopping for new plants for a home can be an exciting undertaking. Nurseries and garden centers are often home to dozens of types of plant species that come in various colors, leaf variations and sizes. Such variety can make choosing plants more fun while also making the process of buying plants a bit complicated, especially for novices...

A guide to watering in extreme heat

Don't wait until the soil is bone-dry and cracked. Find ways to continuously give your plants the water they need to stay healthy.

Grow a Sweet Pea Garden Arch

Create a sweet pea garden arch or secret, living play tunnel using willow branches and some packets of sweet pea seeds. It's a gorgeous, sweet-smelling annual garden delight.

SFPUC Growing Plants in Hospital-Like Nursery to Protect Water Quality

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is trying something different at its new native plant nursery in Sunol. To avoid infecting plants, the botanists here take precautions more akin to a laboratory than a commercial nursery.

Nursery owners worry about asphalt plant, developer says it's not happening

Despite a developer’s reassurances to the contrary, the owners of a longtime Box Elder County nursery worry an asphalt plant might be built next to their property.

Covet for the Garden

Planting Flowers to Add Color to Patio Decor

This patio decor jumps to life with the added color and textures of flowers. It's one of the easiest ways to upgrade an outdoor space there is.

Oregon's nurseries use bug-on-bug tactics to protect high-value plants

It's warfare at the magnifying-glass level. Nursery workers deploy predators by shaking them from trays or from plastic jugs that can hold up to 25,000 bugs. Some simply spread out and start eating. Others are like bizarre special ops forces.