Violas are one of the best bedding plants to add to your garden in April, but if you're keen to start them off from seed, ...

Healthy annuals can stay in the ground to boost soil and prevent erosion. Remove any diseased plants to avoid pests and issues next year. Prep now by moving pots, taking cuttings, and mulching for a ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Shorter days, impending (or regularly occurring) frosts, and fading blooms and foliage hasten us to tuck our gardens in for a well-deserved ...

Warm season annuals that started late last winter should be finishing their season soon. It might seem as if they replaced their predecessors, cool season annuals, only recently. This is the nature of ...

UNITED STATES—Warm season annuals that started late last winter should be finishing their season soon. It might seem as if they replaced their predecessors, cool season annuals, only recently. This is ...

It is time to take cuttings of annuals such as geraniums and begonias that you want to keep over the winter. Cool nights in September will harden off the plants, which will make them more difficult to ...

Plants are classified as annuals, biennials or perennials based on their life cycles. Biennials, like foxglove, have a vegetative year followed by a flowering year. Perennials, including woody shrubs ...

Wondering if this begonia can provide you color for the entire garden season? Well, you are Surefire shootin' straight. The commercial landscape industry is showing the Southeast that this is one ...

Question: I have noticed lots of attractive plantings of wax begonias. How well do they during the hot wet summer? Answer: All begonias like the hot moist weather of summer. They also do best in the ...

Begonias (Begonia semperflorens-cultorum) are warm-season annuals with a long blooming period; the “semperflorens” part of the species name means “always flowering.” Another very useful characteristic ...