As director of horticulture at New England Botanic Garden, my team and I answer a lot of questions about plants and gardening. Did you know you can submit yours to plants@nebg.org? Here are answers to ...

A successful vegetable garden should not only contain vegetables. It should be a diverse planting scheme, or polyculture, that also includes herbs and a range of flowers. In an organic garden, ...

Perennials are like the reliable old friends of the garden—once they’re settled in, they keep coming back year after ...

SEATTLE — The 34th annual Northwest Flower and Garden Festival is underway in Seattle. Boasting the theme, “Spring Vibes Only,” the show is the best place for new or seasoned gardeners to find ...

Growing citrus in the greater Seattle area is a loaded question with a lot of edge cases and qualifiers to any answer,” he tells me.