Zinnias make fantastic cut flowers and companion plants, and their rainbow-hued blooms fit right into garden borders, flower beds, and patio planters. These annual flowers need to be replanted every ...

Zinnias are an easy plant to grow and care for, making them a perfect beginner plant. As annuals, they can grow in any region in just about any soil that has good drainage. Zinnias (Zinnia elegans) ...

Get a jumpstart on the gardening season by starting seeds indoors. If you've never grown anything from seed, it's easy to write the idea off as difficult or labor-intensive, but that couldn't be ...

You can always spot a gardener because they save stuff. Our garages have a section dedicated to used cell-packs, plastic nursery pots and a stack of old flats that we're keeping because we might need ...

You don’t need a lot of space or a big budget to grow and enjoy garden-fresh bouquets. Just fill a few vacant spaces, add an extra row in garden beds or fill a container with easy care flowers started ...

It’s well-known that gardeners are a frugal bunch. Why else were thousands of zucchini recipes invented just to prevent overgrown zucchinis the size of small orca whales from going to waste? And I ...

Depending on your hardiness zone, here's what you can start growing in January to get a jumpstart on your spring garden. The gardening department at your local hardware store is often overlooked in ...

Winter can seem unending, especially for a gardener. So starting plants indoors may be just the way to jump-start spring. “You look online and you see people posting how many days to spring,” said ...

Hi Jessica: My friend received a bouquet of brightly colored beautiful large zinnias. I asked her to give them to me after they died. I then rubbed the seeds off the flowers and put them in a plastic ...