There are many benefits to growing a container garden, from greater control over soil conditions to easier access, since there is no kneeling or bending required, unlike a traditional garden. While ...

Happy St. Patrick’s weekend; a time for ordinary people to drink beer laced with green dye and for MY people — gardeners — to start their peas. Spring crops like peas and salad greens are difficult to ...

• Seeds for sweet peas and native California wildflowers should be planted in November to get the best blooms this spring. • Sweet peas have a delicate, unforgettable fragrance that has never been ...

Whether you grow mostly vegetables, mostly flowers, or a mix of both, chances are good you've wanted to put some vining plants into the mix—and that means adding a trellis to the gardenscape. A ...

The glory of the sweet-pea bloom is behind her, but Glenys Johnson still loves autumn, perhaps most of all. As she pulls the dry pods from her spent vines and opens them to remove the seeds, she knows ...

You might say daughter-in-law Dawn Meredith Peck has the uncommon sense in this family. Or, at least, an uncommon sense of scent, a pursuit of floral fragrance which has driven her to write three ...