These unfussy garden heroes deliver vibrant, carefree beds and borders that return year after year with minimal effort.

As we move into late spring, the leaves will start yellowing and turning brown, withering and falling onto the ground. You can then snip them off, or tug at them and they should detach on their own.

Against a tide of weariness, I have two pieces of advice on this Earth Day, embedded in National Poetry Month: start a garden, and read or write a poem, writes Tess Taylor.

Garden border ideas that let you make a feature of the leaves and greenery will create a display that will shine regardless of the season. If you want to give a foliage border a go in your garden ...

In a blooming garden in Santa Monica, Santa Monica College’s English professors invited their students to share and read ...

The exhibition itself, “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” takes its title from a poem by Amiri Baraka, an American poet, writer, teacher, and political activist whose work is a frequent source of ...

Meg Tapp from The Garden Club of Houston offers her best suggestions for when and how to cover plants — and when and how not to — in her monthly conversation with Houston Matters.

When we want to add color to the garden, most of us set our sights on flowers. But many leaf-forward plants can outlast and even outcompete those with colorful blossoms. For starters, foliage ...

Leaves, glorious leaves! They twirl from the trees, drift on the sidewalk, rustle underfoot. And in your garden, they do wonders. “There are many ways you can use autumn leaves to help your p… ...

Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: Gardens, like poetry, have restorative powers: Poet Tess Taylor reads from new anthology of garden poems Sept. 19 at Amherst College ...

DEAR JANET: Is it just me, or did the spider surprise lilies die this past winter? Normally I have a lot of them in bloom now, and I have seen none. Not in my yard or others as well.