If the summer warmth has you itching to potter about in the garden, now is the ideal time to give your plants a once-over.

Sun-loving blanket flowers are easy to grow and care for, bringing an explosion of color to the garden. This beloved wildflower is abuzz with butterflies and bees and has exceptional heat tolerance.

Removing spent blooms from your garden flowers can be tedious work. Pinching or pruning dead flowers is not just a matter of ...

In the last few weeks, a peculiar plant has begun to draw attention as it reaches full bloom across central Illinois.

Change the water after the sunflowers have been in a vase for two to three days. Start the refreshing process by cutting 1 ...

Black seeds are full, mature watermelon seeds, explains Manaker. You can take these seeds and plant them in the ground to produce more watermelons. White seeds are just the hollow shells of black ...

How to Get a Succulent in Grow a Garden Succulent is one of six plants available in the Crafters Seed Pack. With a 25% chance of appearing, it's the second most likely plant to pop out of a pack ...

How to Get Bendboo in Grow a Garden Bendboo is one of six plants available in the Crafters Seed Pack. With a 10% chance of appearing, it's far from common but not quite as rare as the Dragon ...

California poppies (Eschscholzia californica) are probably the easiest poppies to grow from seed, along with Shirley poppies. Both these varieties are also known to reseed in the garden in sunny spots ...