It’s not unusual these cold gray days to despair over the appearance of our gardens. It wasn’t so long ago that late-blooming ...

I never get tired, for instance, of seeing a bright red male cardinal ... sit for long spells at a time watching their antics at the feeders and flowers. In late March, a riot of colorful, spring ...

Fall is an ideal time for planting flowering ... sunny or shady locations. Some bloom in spring and summer while others save their flowers for early fall. You can plant cultivars that bloom ...

siphilitica) and cardinal flower ... allergic to these late summer flowers. Instead, they’re allergic to ragweed, which starts blooming around the same time. Plant all the goldenrod you ...

Our winters vary greatly in how many chances they provide for winter storms, and how those windows of opportunity play out.

IT WAS in the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the ibis lit in the bleeding tree. The ...

Finding the best perfume and your signature scent is hard. It can take hours of spritzing samples at stores before we are ...

Jasmine blooms ... As a cardinal air sign and initiator of the fall season, you tend to favor scents that are classic with a modern edge, and robust yet delicate at the same time.