Bring life to your garden this winter with five ready-to-plant favourites that thrive in the cold. Here's how to plant up a ...

Whatever your planting style, deciding what to put in winter containers means you need to get creative with your choices. Your efforts will be totally on show as there's usually so little competition ...

Though many consider winter a time of rest, those of us who like to grow flowers in containers will be keen to continue ...

Add your planting arrangement, starting with the centerpiece, then the fillers, and finish up with the trailing plants. Pack ...

GRACE HENSLEY IS a garden coach specializing in container design (Fashionplants.com). Hensley knows the power of planting and styling an entry (or a patio, or balcony, or pool deck) to create a ...

If you’re an avid gardener, the prospect of so many weeks of drab winter without a garden to enjoy can seem dismal. That’s when containers of colorful plant combinations, placed on the porch, patio or ...

Pansies such as this Amber mix Matrix selection without the traditional dark blotch are referred to as clear and are great for displaying pure color. Gary Bachman MSU Extension Service When I woke up ...

Flowers on viola plants are often so prolific they can obscure the foliage, and the smaller flowers hold up to rainy winter ...

Perennials for cool season containers may seem like the proverbial horticultural oxymoron, but that is exactly what I have been planting the last few days in my zone 8a landscape. My favorite pansy ...

It’s either time — or nearly time — to start seeds indoors for the upcoming growing season, depending on where you live. But what about starting them outdoors, despite the frozen ground, whipping ...

The Rocket selection is a longtime favorite with plants that reach 2.5 feet tall with lots of colors including white, yellow, red, pink, violet and purple. They make good cut flowers but are top heavy ...