Home Gardening News

The real estate market may be in a slump, but not all industries having to do with the home are in trouble.

Water newly planted trees at the base of the tree, and saturate the entire root ball.

Sizzling dinners on the grill. Parties on the deck or patio. Relaxing by an outdoor fireplace on cool evenings.

EAST GRAND RAPIDS - For a while, Kerry VerMeulen kept mum on her idea: an invention to gauge sunlight so gardeners know where to plant finicky flowers.

In an ideal world, pesticides would never be needed in the garden. In the real world, they occasionally are.

Are daisies pretty, free plants or 'invasive ornamentals'? Jeffrey Bergeron Vail CO, Colorado ENLARGE Jeffrey Bergeron "They are so cute, I almost hate to kill them." While I was typing those words I had this ...

If you have ever dreamed about what it's like to be a butterfly, then flutter over to the "Amazing Butterflies" exhibition at London's Natural History museum before August 17.

Food featured prominently in Nelson Mandela's struggle against apartheid, from using cooking pots to smuggle messages during his 27-year imprisonment to his first dinner of chicken curry as a free man.

Wet weather and a weak economy have slowed the development of the Regency Conference Center at Greenmount Road and Interstate 64.

Whether you have a few plants at your desk, a container garden on your deck, or a full-fledged garden in your backyard, gardening is enjoyed on many different levels.

After more than 60 years, they remember the cold rain and the ferocity of combat in a fog-shrouded forest straight out of a fairy tale.

If you worked hard to get swimsuit-ready this year, maintaining your beach body is a top priority.

Many gardeners who love their ornamental landscape are not sure if they want to give up space for a vegetable garden that needs to be replanted every year.

Dishing the dirt has a long history in Washington, but the Smithsonian Institution is taking it to new depths.

Good Mrs. Rabbit, widowed mother of four bunnies, knew she could trust her daughters Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail to stay on the lane to pick blackberries.

The first archaeological dig at one of the nation's oldest cathedrals has turned up a mix of new finds in the heart of the French Quarter.

When cookbook author and radio host Lynn Rossetto Kaspar writes about pesto in her new book 'The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper' , a two-paragraph description of pesto morphs into culinary romance bordering ...

The Baobab is known as Africa's 'tree of life', holding thousands of litres of water.

"Life isn't much fun anymore now that the wife has me doing all kinds of nutty things to economize." "Ah, yes, you speak of the way Americans are responding to rapidly rising fuel and food costs." "You got that ...

Law enforcement officials have destroyed almost $128 million of marijuana found growing in the hills of Carmel Valley.