If you're looking for easy ways to brighten up your garden, attract pollinators, and maybe even repel pests, try these ...

For persistent color in your landscape every year, plant dynamic colorful shrubs that bring interest with their fabulous foliage and brilliant blooms. Plant Once, Enjoy for Years Annual flowers ...

Plant winter heath in flower beds, borders, or rock gardens for best results. It needs good drainage and plenty of light to ...

Chrysanthemums, so colorful and varied in their form, add vibrant interest to late summer borders and pots. They can be planted throughout the growing season as long as they’re given time, about six ...

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Gardeners often lament that they have a shady yard and there are only a few plants that will grow in this situation. They love the coolness that trees provide, especially when they are enjoying being ...

Early spring in the Northwest perhaps can best be described in one colorful word: gray. OK, maybe not that colorful after all. But there are ways to add other, more vibrant colors to gardens from ...

When most people hear the phrase “a colorful garden,” their thoughts and imaginations go straight to flowers. Flowers certainly do provide most of the color in our gardens, but they don’t have to ...

When we want to add color to the garden, most of us set our sights on flowers. But many leaf-forward plants can outlast and even outcompete those with colorful blossoms. For starters, foliage plants ...

The spring colors are finally starting to appear. Looking through Milwaukee, you’ll see green grass, yellow buds, and a lot of purple. Some of our earliest blooms here in Milwaukee are crocuses and ...

While my devoted wife enjoys the beauty of a well-tended garden, her primary interests tend toward activities that preclude her getting hot and sweaty. Working up a good sweat in the garden falls ...