The simple vinca plant is being celebrated this year. The National Garden Bureau has designated 2002 as the “Year of the Vinca” because the plant provides so much garden color with so little care.

Question: I have vinca plants that have become tall and lanky. Can I prune the plants back at this time? Answer: Give the plants a light trimming to stimulate fall growth and flowers. Common flowering ...

The simple vinca plant is being celebrated this year. The National Garden Bureau has designated 2002 as the “Year of the Vinca” because the plant provides so much garden color with so little care.

I remember the day we were filming “Southern Gardening” as part of my duties with Mississippi State University. Friend and garden designer Lori Hitchcock presented an urn for the front porch of the ...

Q: We live in the Coachella Valley. Our landscape is planted with many vinca plants that give us a lot of color, but last summer some of them started to die. The nurseryman said it was because of a ...

The plants produce 1-to-2-pound fruits with bright orange-, green- and cream-ridged vertical stripes that shift color as they mature. (Bred by Sakata America) Tomato Tonatico F1 (Mountain/Southwest, ...

Though they're cute to behold, rabbits gravitate toward their favorite flowering plants throughout the growing season, they're known to eat up your garden. While rabbits, like deer, have adaptable ...

Sometimes, the most memorable plant combinations consist of plants that you would not imagine could have such an impact. Individually, they might not be too interesting, but brought together in a ...

Q: We live in the Coachella Valley. Our landscape is planted with many vinca plants that give us a lot of color, but last summer some of them started to die. The nurseryman said it was because of a ...