With Mother´s day being one of the most important holidays of the year, here are some gift ideas.

Give gardeners items that they can use throughout the year. Here are some ideas.

There are all kinds of gifts that gardeners would love to receive. Here are reviews of some highly recommended books and publications.

Gardening and bird watching go together like peanut butter and jelly. So here are some bird books for those bird lovers on your holiday shopping list.

With Mother´s day coming soon, this is an excellent time to begin setting aside gardening items for a gift basket for your mom. Now there´s a book that will help you create a perfect gift.

Weeks before the last frost of the spring, I´m eager to get things planted. Yet I don´t feel safe in refurbishing the whole landscape with new bedding plants and the like. The solution is to get all the windowboxes and container gardens ready to go.

Over 250 years ago, Henry David Thoreau wrote, "But now, by means of railroads and steamboats and telegraphs, the countryside is denaturalized." Substitute the word freeways and interstates and you have a description of modern life. For some the antidote is to explore the infinite beauty of nature.

The cooler weather of fall renews our spirits. Fall is a perfect time to get organized and accomplish those unfinished garden projects.

There are many fine ornamental crabs from which we can choose. Some of these bear excellent quality fruits that are used for culinary purposes.

Citrus is a good choice for the home garden for those living in warm climates where frost isn't a serious problem.