Cut flowers sounded easy when I started gardening. Just plant some flowers and then cut them, right? Well, there is a lot more to it than that. Cut flowers are often grown from specific varieties that ...

Growing a proper cutting garden takes a bit of planning. Every spring, I cut fragrant lilac stems from the two bushes flanking my front gate and set them in a vase indoors, where their fragrance ...

New selections featured in plant catalogs each season are tempting, but some discourage visits by pollinators. It’s the time of year when new seed and plant catalogs arrive in mailboxes. In addition ...

If you’re looking for an alternative to cut flowers as a gift this Mother’s Day, you can skip the traditional store-bought bouquet and choose a house plant, an equally gorgeous alternative with a ...

Fill your gardens with beautiful plants that produce an abundance of seeds the birds will love. You'll enjoy the flowers as well as the birds that visit to dine on the seeds - and best of all, there ...

After a rare April storm smothered Oregon with snow Monday, Portland flower hobbyist Kishra Ott was called to rescue lilacs shaken from a toppled century-old tree. She filled floral buckets with the ...