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Countless generations of children were tough on fuchsias. Little girls picked the brightly colored flowers with long hanging pistils and pretended they were ballerinas.

What happens when you cross a tree peony with a perennial peony? You get an “intersectional hybrid” peony! This is exactly what Toichi Itoh did in 1948. Now this beautiful plant bears his name.

Grow one of the oldest American cultivated plants and join the Incas and Aztecs who grew…and revered…sunflowers 4,600 years ago.

It’s edible, a member of the mint family, and ornamental. Grown for over 5000 years, it flavors food around the world… Have you guessed yet?

It’s vacation time, you’re going to be gone for two weeks, your friends are all busy and the weatherman says “hot, hot, hot.” What about your houseplants?

Once upon a time, contrary Mary grew her garden with silver bells and cockleshells, but nowadays, most of use some other forms of fertilizer.

There’s a bug called a “grub” that causes brown spots in lawn. It may be feasting on yours…

What’s all this talk about “IPM?” It seems to be creeping into our gardening vocabulary more frequently. Have you wondered about it?

Click the headline above to see helpful gardening tips for this season!

One of the most common and easy to recognize plant diseases, powdery mildew, is caused by fungus spores that overwinter…

Periods of drought, heat waves and rising water bills can make any gardener more interested in saving water. Fortunately, there…

Hear ye, hear ye…The California Rare Fruit Growers Association does hereby proclaim 2014, “The Year of the Quince.” Ah, but don’t confuse this quince with the “flowering quince.” Although beautiful, it’s not edible. However, the heralded quince is both edible and beautiful!