WHAT TO EXPECT: St. Patrick’s Day starts out with patches of frost. Sunshine will take a while to materialize, but we can count on blue skies later in the day! While we do recover, we’re only in the ...

Lots of flowers will trail or spill from containers in pink, white, red, or yellow. Use these cascading blooms to keep ...

One popular way to insulate plantings a few degrees is to use a row cover, a type of lightweight fabric designed to let most ...

Nectar-rich blooms are a lifeline for butterflies. Create a summer garden for these colorful flitting pollinators by sowing ...

Question: My neighbor starts planting his vegetable garden a month before I do. I’m worried about frost if I plant too early.

Nick Petro, warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Raleigh, says that in the Triangle, data ...

Other tender shrubs that should be pruned in spring include cistus and rosemary. Flowering shrubs that bloomed in the summer, ...

This month is a period of relative calm in which to get aspects of the garden going, such as preparing areas ready for ...

Q. I thought Natal Plum was frost-tender, but I’ve seen it survive several winters where frost occurs regularly. Is there a secret trick to get them to survive the cold?

The colour of hydrangea flowers is influenced by the soil they ... just after the last frost at the end of March. Hydrangeas form their flower buds on old wood, so cutting them back too late ...

These yellow flowers promise to put some pep in your garden. From yellow perennials to yellow annuals, check out our top ...