Garden Tips & Advice

Ultimately, flower bulbs are the key to a beautiful garden. Following these five tips should help you get stunning blooms year after year.

If you've ever wanted to make your flower garden more useful or your vegetable garden more beautiful, you can do both at the same time. Many flowering plants do double-duty as ornamentals and edibles. Planting a garden exclusively with edible flowers

Ornamental grasses are fairly low maintenance, but there are a few steps a gardener can take to ensure that they flourish from year to year.

Many vegetables can be grown in a container, and tomatoes make an attractive, low-maintenance selection for a container vegetable garden in any space. Here are tips in doing this.

With the right setup and using the right varieties of fruits and vegetables, you can ensure that you have a successful harvest throughout winter and into the spring.

Who says you can't have your cake — or pineapple — and eat it too? You may think pitching carrot tops into the compost is eco-friendly, but there's a more productive way to deal with your leftover produce.

Whatever your level of gardening experience, try spicing up your perennial beds with these 5 herbs. They'll do double duty as both attractive plants and tasty edibles.

In the world of gardening, compost is a critical component for growing the best produce, flowers and trees, and choosing the best method of composting from the many available is of primary concern. There are a number of ways for a home gardener to pr

Although most perennials produce flowers, their sheer diversity makes it easy to build a satisfying garden using little else. Here's some tips for growing healthy and abundant perennials.

As a native of Mexico, the dahlia is a subtropical plant that needs humus-rich soil, constant watering, and regular feeding. Given those things, the dahlia will delight you with its texture and layers if you follow these tips.

If you want plenty of dazzling colour for very little money and effort, annuals are the plants for you. Here are three essential tips for making the most of your annual flowers.

To achieve that natural, slightly wild floral look, go with a columbine flower. They grow to medium height with spindly stalks and gorgeous, colourful heads, and are incredibly easy to start and maintain.

Geraniums add a lovely burst of colour to any flower bed or pot. They come in a variety of colours and require very little maintenance.

With richly gorgeous leaves during spring summer and fall, and little red flowers in the winter, the parrotia tree is an easy way to brighten up any yard. And with its incredibly simple maintenance, owning one has never been easier.

Cheerfully bright and orange, the calendula is is a favourite of gardeners everywhere. It's easy to grow and maintain, and can even be used in cooking dishes.

After the drudgery of a long winter season, perk up your spirits with a gorgeous azalea shrub. They're bursting with colour and are really easy to maintain.

When you've got plenty of empty space and a desire to fill it with something leafy and green, look at hop vines as an option. They grow incredibly quickly and provide a luscious, forest-like look.

Groundcovers are one of the quickest and easiest ways to instantly turn a bare space into something lovely and textured. Pretty much all you have to do is plant them and watch them grow.

With a heady, spicy aroma and a hardy nature, stock annuals are easy-to-grow plants. Fill your garden with them or gift them as cut flowers.

They're durable, hardy and will reward you with colours for several seasons. The epimedium is one of the best plants you can choose for a long-lasting relationship.