When you want show-stopping plants with big flowers, nothing beats dinner plate dahlias. These tall, colorful, long-blooming plants feature flower heads that can grow to more than 12 inches wide.

Hostas are perennials that provide significant foliage interest in your flower garden or landscape. Miss America consists of heart-shaped green leaves with white centers and light green streaking.The ...

Jamison and Walker tells Parade Home and Garden that the most common flowers in spring are usually tulips, daffodils, ...

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clean your shears with alcohol wipes before pruning each rose bush. Second, cut down taller canes on your rose bushes to about 3 to 4 feet from the ground. I prune from the bottom up. Rose pruning ...

Research from OSU Extension shows that annual, moderate pruning results in bushes with the fewest canes, but with the greatest yields and largest berries. A blueberry bush before pruning.Neil Bell ...

With all the heatwave conditions we had earlier this week, I hope, like me, you have a cool, shady part of the garden where you can relax when it all gets a bit much.

So, in January, you should avoid pruning spring-flowering shrubs such as forsythia, lilacs, and flowering currants. For example, if you prune them in January, the sensitive cut part of the plant will ...

Pruning helps roses divert more energy to new buds rather than focus on decaying foliage that is already falling off the plant, so your flowers will be much healthier once they bloom.