Pots and containers offer a superb alternative to planting in the ground. This is especially true in areas of your garden that have little or no soil, like wooden decks, concrete patios, and small, ...

Often, we focus on one sense in patio gardens: sight. However, the space also benefits from catering to our sense of smell. Some fragrant herbs thrive in pots.

Native to warmer regions in North, Central and South America, passion flowers are impossible to ignore. Wherever they are grown, their unusual blooms take on an otherworldly quality, and during summer ...

Chrysanthemums and pansies are classic fall flowers for pots, but several more blooming annuals and perennials can help add rich color to your container gardens throughout autumn. Most of the ...

The growing season is finally here — time to fill pots with flowers and foliage. But which ones? To give you fresh ideas, we turned to Dean Engelmann, co-owner of Tangletown Gardens in South ...

Creating a flower pot is a bit like creating a dish for dinner. You can keep it quick and simple, you can get really creative, or you can do something in between. All of them let you come up with ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...