February is the month when indoor seed-starting takes center stage in the Northern gardening world. It’s when eager gardeners get busy starting their cool-season plants, such as cabbage, broccoli, ...

November in the South is marked by mild days and cool nights—perfect weather for plants to set down roots. Discover which ...

Fall weather can offer surprisingly helpful conditions for coneflowers, giving gardeners a chance to start seeds earlier and ...

Whether you want to grow flowers to cultivate a beautiful yard or to create a wildlife wonderland full of bees and butterflies, the expense of purchasing nursery-grown plants adds up quickly. Luckily, ...

Fall is around the corner. Watch the shrubs turn as they are our under-sung fall foliage. Lists are boring, so bore yourself with some good perennials to grow from seed (which, as a bonus, deer don’t ...

Many gardeners start vegetables, annual flowers and herbs from seeds, either indoors or directly in the garden. However, have you ever considered growing your own perennials from seed? Perennial ...

Prepare seeds and transplants a few weeks before you plan on putting them in the ground. There are plenty of perennials to pick from, so always start looking at local wildflowers first. If you want ...

While chewing the cud with my old friend Locke Larkin of Great Barring-ton, we ruminated over the virtues of starting plants from seed. For years, Locke has been collecting seeds from the many plants ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

If you want perennial plants to settle in as quickly and easily as possible, it pays to get them in the soil at the right time. Perennials planted in summer are more at risk of transplant shock, while ...