I must confess straightaway that this article is really better suited for May, but a friend gave me some sedum starts. As I was looking up its propagation and care, I thought others might be in the ...

If you’re ever visiting Denver Botanic Gardens and spot a horticulturist with a ZZ Top beard and a straw hat, it’s probably Mike Bone, curator of Steppe Collections. The Westminster native is now in ...

A string of hot late August days like we’ve been having can cause problems, especially in naturally dry areas. Our soil is very sandy and is prone to drying out quickly under these harsh conditions.

My wife and I have a favorite perennial plant called sedum. Some may call it stonecrop. We call it colorful, resilient and beneficial. When we moved to Ohio with our young children, we searched for a ...

I got an email this past week from a reader which had a question that I have not seen very often — at least not very often on this plant. The question I got was very strange in that only a part of the ...

A couple of years ago, my neighbour was showing me the Cuban oregano growing in his garden, and broke off a little sprig so I could sniff the minty, camphor scent. He told me to plant it. So I stuck ...