Predicting color trends is somewhat like giving weather forecasts. Sometimes, experts are right. At other times, they are off target. Consumers can be very fickle when it comes to colors in fashion, decorating, and gardening. However, blue remains a favorite shade.

The garden has become an extension of the home, a haven from pressures and frustrations of the workday.

Most of us don´t have unlimited time to spend maintaining the landscape. That doesn´t mean we have to neglect those chores. With proper planning, care free landscapes are possible.

America's love affair with butterflies never seems to end. You can now visit special butterfly houses year-round in the east from Niagara Falls to Florida.

At first glance, you might think the ghostly white snowberries and the coralberries have nothing in common. In fact, these are related species. They´re in the same group known as Symphoricapos. These versatile shrubs can be used in various ways throughout the landscape.

The dazzling Kousa dogwood provides beauty in every season. This is especially true during the winter months when we need it the most. For landscape use, it is hard to find a woody plant that is more attractive than the Kousa.

The Latin name for daylily is Greek for ´beautiful for a day.´

Despite the economic downtown, there are many affordable Valentine´s gifts for gardeners.

Before there were seed catalogs and commercial seed companies, gardeners saved their own seeds. Now there is renewed interest in seed saving.

In general, fungi are a group of plants that we would rather forget that they exist.