Get your garden growing this spring by adding spring ephemeral plants. Learn how to grow bloodroot, mayapple, trillium and more.

Skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) is native to eastern North America, including the northern half of Illinois. It grows in wet areas, such as marshy woods, wetlands, stream banks, and bogs. It is ...

Walsingham has perfect conditions for snowdrops to thrive: deciduous woodland with chalky, alkaline, humus-rich soil with good drainage, but which never dries out in summer. The open tree canopy lets ...

Horticulturist David Domoney recommends planting these five flower bulbs in February to ensure your garden is bursting with colour come springtime ...

February marks the moment when gardens begin to stir from their winter dormancy, making it the ideal time to start sowing ...

Snowdrops are probably the most visible of these spring floral packages and their popularity is evident at this time with gardens that have large collections of snowdrops opening on specified dates ...

From Seed: If you want to start skeleton flowers from seeds, cold-stratification is necessary. The simplest method is to sow ...

A super long-blooming native Joe-Pye eupatorium, a new pink-bloomer that’s a hummingbird magnet, and four new perennial flowers that earned national trial-garden honors lead the list of perennial ...

This time of year is a lovely time to have a baby! The days are stretching, the lambs are prancing and nature is coming back ...

Believe it or not, January is a great time to plan for the growing seasons. While it's considered the dead of winter for most of the United States, some gardening tasks are still recommended around ...

For folks who move to the Lowcountry from colder regions, winter arrives with a kind of cultural whiplash. You might be grilling in short sleeves while back home friends and family are shoveling snow ...