In the shade garden this week: Cut flowers from caladiums to encourage leaf production. Remove spent flower stalks from hosta. Remove old fronds (leaves) from ferns. Prune Japanese maple lightly as ...

Add color and creativity to shady corners of a garden or patio that would otherwise feel lonely and lifeless. We may think these low-light places are dominated by ho-hum bushes and drab green ...

Cut flowers sounded easy when I started gardening. Just plant some flowers and then cut them, right? Well, there is a lot more to it than that. Cut flowers are often grown from specific varieties that ...

Question: We like to bring flowers indoors from the landscape. What are some good bedding plants to grow for cut flowers during summer? Answer: Any plant blooming during the summer would likely make a ...

Making a dedicated outdoor space for cutting garden flowers is always a lovely idea, no matter how big or small your backyard. That way, you can decorate your home with freshly cut, seasonal blooms – ...

Folks who only have shade often give up on gardening because they cannot grow things like poppies and peonies. They only know “boring” shade plants planted for their foliage rather than their blossoms ...

Amplify your landscape with big flowers. Check out the biggest blooms on the block that will make an immediate impact in your ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Cut flowers are prime rewards of a summer garden. I am in a yellow phase indoors, building up vases with flat ...

I first saw cardinal flowers growing in a drainage ditch along a farm field. Their intense red took my breath away, in part because of their surroundings. This was no well-tended, perennial flower ...

Back when my wife and I were grad students in Illinois, we got by on Saturday morning samples from the local IGA and Swedish meatballs and egg rolls for happy hour at the local pub. The two of us ...