Everyone should enjoy leafy, blooming things in summer, even if you have a small yard or garden. Towering flowers and trees aren't limited to botanic gardens and suburban swaths. Narrow plants with ...

Question: We would like to grow tall sunflowers. What varieties grow well here and what care is needed? Answer: Many sunflower varieties are available to grow 10 to 12 feet tall. Some claim to grow ...

Editor’s note: Once a month OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Tall coreopsis, (Coreopsis tripteris), is a beautiful ...

When you purchase a home within a homeowners association (HOA), the authority over your landscape doesn’t rest solely with you. Oftentimes an HOA, an entity formed of a neighborhood such as a ...

Seemingly overnight, a Redding gardener said, a rather ordinary-looking plant growing in her yard suddenly developed a bright yellow-tipped, 17-foot-tall flower stalk. The plant sure had never bloomed ...

Question: Bright reddish flower spikes are developing on tall plants in a few local landscapes. Would you know the name and is it a good one to grow? Answer: Enjoy the summer through early fall color ...

Indoor plants often become leggy, or "stretched out," if they aren't getting enough light. Many times, this can be corrected by cutting back the plant and relocating it to a brighter setting. You can ...

The luffa plant, which was grown along a washing line inside a polytunnel, measured 11.6 metres (38ft) tall A gardener who grows giant vegetables has set a new Guinness World Record for the tallest ...

GEORGETOWN — You might not hear trumpets blown by angels, but at the Vernon home on Choppee Road north of Georgetown, not too far from U.S. 701, you can see plenty of them growing in the front yard of ...