Choosing cutting garden flowers in a rich palette of terracotta, burgundy, and peach – with perhaps a touch of cream – will ...

Raising cutting garden flowers to display in your home is one of the biggest joys of gardening. Whether it's a fragrant posy of sweet peas, a jug of daffodils, or a singular dahlia to marvel at, they ...

Do you just love fresh flower arrangements for the table or even that single bloom in a vase by your bedside? Wouldn’t it feel great to just stroll out your back door, clip some blossoms, bring them ...

A Penstemon x ‘Dark Towers,’ a tall native hybrid Beardtongue, a perennial. Setting aside a spot in your yard to grow flowers just for cutting all summer to make into bouquets is a goal of many ...

A hand holding a bouquet of freshly cut flowers in a field - The_burtons/Getty Images When you're looking for easy to grow cut flowers for your garden, it's understandable to focus on show-stopping ...

Keeping your cut flowers fresh for as long as possible is top priority, and if you're harvesting from your own garden, the ...

Cut flowers sounded easy when I started gardening. Just plant some flowers and then cut them, right? Well, there is a lot more to it than that. Cut flowers are often grown from specific varieties that ...

Writing about gardening is much easier than doing the actual actions related to it. Since I am such a fanatic, most people think that I must love all aspects of gardening. Wrong! I love all aspects of ...

Farrah Storr writes the popular newsletter/Substack Things Worth Knowing I became an eccentric flower woman sometime between my 40th birthday and the morning I was browsing an antique store in the ...

For many avid gardeners, their plants and gardens over time become memory-keepers: living reminders of their happiest childhood or other life experiences. A plant’s presence in a garden can represent ...

Coneflowers provide seeds for birds and habitats for beneficial insects. Cutting them back in spring is ideal, but there are ...