This is one of those trees that fanatical gardeners die for. Glossy evergreen leaves. Unusual orange fruit. Enormous creamy-white...

Is it too early to think about indoor cheer-up plants for the winter? Brr! Clearly not.

Autumn crocus is worth planting if only to startle your neighbours. When they ask why your crocuses are blooming this time of year...

Flower fanciers have generally forsaken native plants over the years for the fashionable and the flashy, but the robust perennials...

With harvest season winding down, it's time for dessert. How about some candy, real candy, from the garden?

Crocus that bloom in the fall? Yes, believe it or not.

Black-eyed Susans have a bittersweet quality to me. Like corn and ripe tomatoes, they always signify the end of summer.

Why are some window boxes so beautiful while others are so blah?

How incredible crocosmias can be. I was in Stratford last week and couldn't stop oohing and aahing over a clump of the kind...

Good on the Aussies. They've come up with this exciting new garden plant, but they haven't saddled it with a cutesy (or... (0)

Whoever authored the phrase "strength in numbers" must have been a flower bulb grower. Gardeners for decades have been... (0)

I confess to being a klutz with clematis. There are so many kinds. (0)

Read about roses, talk to other gardeners about growing them, and insect and disease problems seem inevitable. (0)

What's in a name? When it comes to plants, plenty. This flower was tipped to become a hot item a couple of years ago, after... (1)

For about 15 years, a big yellow garage marked the south boundary of our backyard garden. It set off the blue bigleaf hydrangeas... (0)

This plant can kill you? Well, yes, I suppose so. It contains digoxin, used in the treatment of heart disease, and could... (0)

Flowers sprouting from a sheet of paper? Amazingly, yes. (0)

A new book catalogues the ghastly properties and grisly history of our most beloved flora. (8)

Chrysanthemums run the gamut, from bushy mounds covered with blossoms to stately, upright plants capped by one or just a few... (0)

Since European settlers first brought daylillies here more than a century ago, they are no longer available only in orange or... (0)

Neighbours can be nice. Or a total nightmare. If yours fit the latter description, here's a great thing to block them out. (0)

How delightfully sexy these poppies are. They put me in mind of Bizet's Carmen. Their flaring, crinkly petals in flamboyant red... (4)

We're becoming a city of gawkers. Last month, thousands of us turned out to traipse through 150 historic buildings during Doors... (0)

Some gardeners get the cactus crazies. They acquire one, then another. And another.... But not me. Blame childhood memories. (0)

Lovely little lantana. How sweet and innocent it looks, in its plastic pot. Yet how deceptive. (0)

Ah, those darling deer with their cute faces. What a nuisance they have become in Ontario. But – hurray! – there's one plant that... (1)

Why are some window boxes so beautiful while others are so blah? (1)