With the temperatures falling below 70 degrees at night, the second tier of cool-weather annuals are ready to become part of the winter landscape. If you already have snapdragons, calendula, alyssum, ...

The cooler temperatures have encouraged gardeners to visit their favorite nurseries, where they are finding lots of winter annuals. The newest ones seem to be pansies, cyclamen and primula. They are ...

Here are some popular veggies and plants that don't need the sun. We often associate healthy plants and vegetables with lots of direct sunshine. It seems like they would go hand-in-hand, right? Not ...

Shaded areas in your yard don't mean you can't have beautiful plants and colorful flowers. There are plenty of fast-growing shade plants that effortlessly thrive in shady spots. Picking and choosing ...

This primrose can naturalize, but it is best to start with more than one to insure pollination and seed set. What: Primula bulleyana, also known as Bulley’s candelabra primrose, demand attention in ...

The primrose of Shakespeare and other poets is actually a family of several hundred species and hybrid plants known for their striking, often brilliant blossoms. Though many of these eye-catching ...

The name primrose refers to a large number of plants, some of which are not primroses at all. Primroses are in fact part of the Primula family - Primula being Latin, and referring to the fact that ...

"For now, it is my sun room and I'm planning on soaking up as much vitamin D as I possibly can." Even though the weather for March was a bit unbelievable, there is a silver lining to every cloud: the ...

Time to get deep down dirty, right underneath the fingernails if you wish to create a large or small patch of ‘spring woodland’ in your garden, or in pots and containers. All you need is a partially ...

EARLIER this week on a brisk evening walk along the coast they caught my eye from a 100 yards away. Hundreds of them used to populate all the steep banks in this particular field, what’s known locally ...