Garden Tips & Advice

It's the beauty of mahonia's large, blue-green, hollylike leaves that makes this shrub so useful in the landscape. These are some tips on how to incorporate it into your garden.

Brachycome, or Swan River daisy, is a care-free annual that adds a cloud of soft colour to any garden. Here's some ways to grow better looking and healthier brachycome.

Licorice plants can fulfill many different roles in your garden. Here's some tips for growing healthy licorice, and how they can add to your garden's look.

Trumpet vine willingly covers everything from stumps to brick walls with beautiful flowers. For better-looking vines, follow these suggestions.

If you work during the day, you'll love coming home to the evening blooms of four o'clocks. the late-blooming flowers are easy to grow and maintain. Here's how:

Spider flowers, or cleomes, are a favourite amongst gardeners for their beauty and easy care. Here are just a few reasons why you should include them in your garden.

If you have some shady spots and limited time, you'll love the care-free loveliness climbing hydrangeas. With these seven simple tips, you could have a healthy vine growing in your garden.

Trillium is a precious part of the natural heritage of North America. Once you've seen these wildlings growing in the forest, you'll want them to grow in your garden. Here's how.

Colourful container plants can serve as strong points in the garden, creating contrast and drama, or as a unifying element, drawing together separate spaces. Here are a few tips to managing them:

A highly desirable landscape tree, river birch is famous for its ridged, ruddy brown bark that peels, revealing shaggy, salmon flakes.

Delicate in appearance and artistic in habit, Japanese maples offer a range of attractive features for the landscape. Most have smooth, grayish brown bark and branches that naturally form graceful layers or interesting, contorted shapes.

When your whole yard is parched by dry weather and plants that wilted in the midday sun are still drooping the next morning, they are in dire need of irrigation. Knowing when and how much to water is key to achieving that lush, green look you are aim

Botanically speaking, mugo pine is a tree, but it is very successful when grown as a shrub. Its extreme hardiness exceeds that of even juniper, so it is among the few evergreens that will grow for gardeners in the coldest of climates. And, because of

Morning glory has been a favourite in summer gardens since the 1930s when the sky blue, trumpet-shaped flowers came hit the market. This early-flowering beauty opened the way for hybrids with eight-centimetre-wide (3.25-inch-wide) blossoms in a rainb

Some areas scream for that pop of colour and plenty of it; that's when butter daisies will serve you well. Exceptionally easy to grow, with phenomenally prolific blossom output, butter daisies always seem to be dappled with 2.5-centimetre-wide (inch-

If you think of onions as bulbs that make you weep, think again. Ornamental onions have but a faint onion scent and only when the leaves get crushed. What they offer instead are beautiful flowers in shades of purple, lavender, mauve, and white.

Essential components of contemporary landscape design, perennial grasses have become very popular, and for good reason. They are the ultimate care-free plants, enriching the landscape year-round and usually requiring only to be cut back each spring t

Combining three or more plants in a container is a bit like flower arranging, in that you begin with a tall, upright plant to structure the design, add a second plant that will fill out the picture with foliage and colour, and connect the arrangement

Although the upright-growing zonal geraniums are the most familiar members of the family, there are other geraniums worth considering for their beauty and scent. We'll go over two varieties and teach you how to grow them best.

Viburnums are beautiful shrubs that can add aesthetic appeal to your garden, borders, and boundaries. But which variety do you choose? We'll cover 5 common types of viburnum so that you can pick the right one for you.