By choosing outdoor woody plants that set their buds in the fall, you can easily bring some cuttings inside to enjoy their beauty while it is still cold and gray outside. Forcing flowers, or making ...

Pennsylvania falls within the defined USDA Northeast region of the U.S.: the western Pennsylvania specific USDA Planting Zone is 6 (6a and 6b). This means that plants should be selected that can ...

Don't know if Garden Gate owners Junior and Maria Villanueva had this childhood rhyme in mind when they named their Uptown floral shop and located it in a charming two-story Victorian house behind ...

Shivering as you get your daily mail, you may just be rewarded with a sure sign of spring – garden catalogs ... house-bound gardeners with dreams of flowers and vegetables, trees and shrubs ...

I mean 500 orders, or so right now,” said Stacy Fisher, Garden Gate Flowers owner. ”We’re a small shop, I’m sure some have seen more, but for us, that’s still a pretty darn good number.” ...

Important topics also include how to make the growing area pollinator-friendly by adding flowers throughout the garden. Companion planting of flowers can aid in deterring destructive insects.

WHERE Gardens of Golden Gate Park (Conservatory of Flowers, Japanese Tea Garden, San Francisco Botanical Garden) Raffle winners will each receive one membership, which will be fulfilled via email ...

Forcing flowers, or making them bloom before their usual time, has been done for centuries, and it isn’t hard to do. Some favorite plants for forcing are forsythia, redbud, pussywillow ...