Rosemary is known for drawing pollinators to the garden. Double its power when you plant it next to this other herb for ...

Filling your garden with native plants is a sustainable approach to backyard landscaping, as you support your local fauna with the flora best suited to their needs. Drawing hummingbirds to your yard ...

Some plants are celebrated in poetry, prose and song. Some give us (mostly girls’) names. Some are adopted as emblems and treasured for their symbolism. And then some just get on with it. The salvias ...

Unless you have a landscape managed like a golf course with deep soil and well-watered lawn grass, you probably have some wildflowers growing on the grounds. Here are some to look for in your ...

Hummingbirds migrate north in the spring, and their arrival is eagerly anticipated by some gardeners. Certain plants, like cuphea, geraniums, impatiens, lantana, nicotiana, petunias, salvias, and ...

I often hear from home gardeners asking about “mystery” plants that have materialized in their gardens. Annual poppy seeds often drift into gardens via birds. Annual flowers that commonly self-sow are ...

The Unplugged salvia group is growing to four in 2025, and it can be your start to an epic red, white and blue garden. Unplugged So Blue and Unplugged Pink have won a whopping 63 awards in just a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unplugged So Blue salvia was the first in the Unplugged group and has won 37 awards. Here it is seen with Heat it Up Yellow ...

Many different species of birds will pass through Austin under the radar during March, with some American White Pelicans, Snow Geese, Sandhill Cranes and ducks getting a head start during February. If ...

Summer is here, with plenty of warm weather ahead, so why not grow flowers you can cut and bring indoors to enjoy? Growing cut flowers is easy and won’t require much effort once the plants get ...