Today, advent calendars have evolved into creatively designed collections that dispense items ranging from pet toys to soaps, ...

Have you ever grown sunflowers? Sunflowers, known for their tall stalks and bright, cheerful flowers, belong to the family Asteraceae. Yes, they look somewhat like asters. The old name for the ...

Some of the brightest and happiest of summer flowers are also the easiest to grow from seed. They are not shy to germinate, ...

An usually wet September and October has greened up Arizona's outdoors, but La Niña could erase some of the gains.

Calendula needs moderate watering; water them once a week or more often if the weather is particularly dry. Mulching around ...

We all know that there is a specific kind of magic that happens when spring finally arrives. The world stretches awake, the ...

Lucia Ortiz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak ...

This time lapse demonstrates planting a marigold from a seed to flowers over 70 days. The marigold seed was chosen randomly ...

One of Britain’s most endangered orchids has been brought back from the brink of extinction following decades of conservation work, experts said. The “beautiful yet mercurial” fen orchid (Liparis ...

Not all the flowering shrubs and vines that number on gardeners' favorites lists are a good option for beginner growers. They ...

The route from the land of the dead to San Andrés Mixquic, a little town just outside Mexico City, is lined with marigolds.