With outdoor space at a premium in many cities, gardeners can turn to rooftop landscaping. Whether you want to grow organic produce, creating an oasis of green, reduce your carbon footprint or simply enjoy gardening as a hobby, the roof ...

Generations of gardeners have observed for the first bright yellow forsythia flowers to announce the arrival spring. Forsythia (Forsythia spp. And hybrids) are one of the earliest flowering shrubs in the spring, so it's a real disappointment if they fail ...

Lupine (Lupinus spp.) Provide color and vertical interest to a garden. This high plant that reaches 3 to 5 feet high, forms distinctive living tips of pea-like flowers. Found in shades of purple, violet, red, pink, yellow or white, ...

Gardeners interested in organic fertilizers always looking for natural ways to improve plant growth. Breaking eggshells last long so that all the nutrients they provide are applied slowly. Add egg shells instead of the compost heap. Crush them ...

Crushed eggshells can as the last thing you want to use your sound plants, but they offer amazing benefits to a wide range of plants. Egg shells are a natural by-product, and they are rich in nutrients that plants and ...

When the breezes flutter Sweetbay magnolia (Magnolia virginiana) leaves, their silvery undersides and glisten balk. In May and June, the breeze carries the lemony scent of creamy white flowers. Every flower, with nine to 12 petals, is often partially hidden ...

A fixture on American porches and in parlors since Victorian days, the Boston fern (Nephrolepis exaltata "Bostoniensis") is a tender perennial that has very little to do with Boston. It was a unique plant under similar ferns from Philadelphia flower ...

Gardeners often plant iris in her flower beds and gardens by. A splash of color in the landscape Siberian irises are often found in blue, yellow, purple or white, and some hybrid species in black, bronze, pink or creamy white. ...