In June, cultivated roses of many colors are blooming in parks and in yards, beckoning people to stop and inhale the fragrance. But if you look a little farther — out in a wild area — you may discover ...

While bright flowers and lush foliage can create a beautiful garden, nothing quite brings the landscape to life like seeing birds flitter from bush to bush, singing to each other, or hunting for bugs ...

Sunflowers, herbs, and many other plants are easy to propagate. You can multiply them by sowing seeds, dividing bulbs and tubers, or starting cuttings from the stems or leaves of most herbaceous ...

Colorful, fragrant roses bring timeless beauty to your yard and offer stunning accents for your home. Centuries-old rose breeds and modern rose varieties are popular with gardeners of all stripes.

Celebrate the Year of the Rose and plant a native Virginia rose this month. Roses are probably the most well-known flower in the world, but our sweet native roses don’t get in on that claim to fame.

Native flora in many places around Washington reach peak bloom around this time of year. It’s easy to forget that they do much more than please the eyes. Native plants play a vital role in maintaining ...

There are many, many types of roses grown in the horticultural trade. For example, one small rose nursery has more than 1,000 types of bare root roses. In California, there are only nine species of ...

There are many types of roses grown in the horticultural trade. For example, a small rose nursery in Fremont has more than 700 varieties of roses available for sale at its nursery. In California, ...