For many plants, pruning in late winter can ruin your flower display. But for these summer bloomers, it'll have the opposite ...

The garden’s position adjacent to Lake Whitehurst means water views surprise you around corners, with the lake’s expansive ...

Norfolk Botanical Garden is the botanical equivalent of finding out your quiet neighbor is secretly a world-class opera singer—it’s that unexpected and that magnificent. The moment you arrive, you’re ...

The nation’s premier color trend-setter — the New Jersey-based Pantone Color Institute — each year selects a “Color of the ...

Other of Matt’s favorite porch décor plants are holly varieties (particularly the ‘Savannah’ variety), and smoky blue ...

Two weeks ago, I wrote about being enamored with purple flowers and the feeling of calm their presence in the garden creates. I mentioned this was not by chance, since purple is an analogous color of ...

Dear Neil: I recently bought a house in rural East Texas. It’s on 2.5 acres of heavily forested land. I didn’t walk the entire area before the closing, and only recently have I discovered that I ...

Not long ago, I received the following email: “I have two crape myrtle trees in my front yard, one about 25 years old and one about 10 years old. They are in full sun. They usually bloom later than ...