If you have ever marveled at a sunflower's complex beauty, then you've seen one example of the ubiquitous sequence introduced ...

When I looked out the kitchen window early one recent morning, there was a yellowish moth on it. I hit the window a few times, but it never moved and was still there hours later. At night, moths are ...

When I looked out the kitchen window early one recent morning, there was a yellowish moth on it. I hit the window a few times ...

Butterflies and flowers share a timeless connection, almost as if they were created for each other. As Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore beautifully wrote, "The butterfly counts not months but ...

The sky was a leaden gray typical of the rainy season, and a light drizzle continued to fall without a sound. In that dim light, a cluster of yellow flowers was blooming with surprising vigor. When I ...

Peony flower petals on leaves can create fungal problems. Remove the petals as soon as possible to prevent disease. How lush our gardens appear now! I still tackle weeds (plants growing in the wrong ...

Every gardener has one. That ugly, forgotten strip of dirt by the fence, the bone-dry slope, the compacted patch where the sun bakes everything into dust by July. The common advice is to haul in ...