While bright flowers and lush foliage can create a beautiful garden, nothing quite brings the landscape to life like seeing birds flitter from bush to bush, singing to each other, or hunting for bugs ...

In the garden In her book “Plant This, Not That,” Elise Howard offers more than 200 substitution ideas for invasive plants.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Our previous column included notes on pruning and propagating roses, and beginning a project to add roses, by first identifying sites where roses would grow ...

Roses, especially hybrid tea roses, Grandiflora, and floribunda roses, tend to require more care than other flowers. After tending to them all spring and summer, it's tempting to take a more ...

When is the best time to cut back roses? Is there is difference between pruning cultivated roses and roses native to Missouri? Roses that bloom only once should be pruned after blooming, since they ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Our previous column included notes on pruning and propagating roses, and beginning a project to add roses, by first identifying sites where roses would grow ...