Summer is just a matter of weeks away and bedding plants promise an easy way to create a beautiful floral border around your garden. However, because bedding plants are often tender it is important ...

Summer weather is just around the corner and bedding plants offer a simple way of adding a pop of colour to your floral border. However, given that most bedding plants are tender, they can not survive ...

It should be safe to plant tender bedding plants now such as marigolds, zinnias, blue daze, pentas, celosia, salvia, portulaca, purslane, lantana and others. Try to wait until the weather is warmer in ...

Question: We like to bring flowers indoors from the landscape. What are some good bedding plants to grow for cut flowers during summer? Answer: Any plant blooming during the summer would likely make a ...

Golden rudbeckia pairs well with bright yellow marigolds, silver dusty miller, red and white geraniums, and variegated dracaena. The key to mixing all these colors: planting in swaths to avoid a ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. Also known as pot ...

Pansies are a great autumn/winter stalwart. With impossibly cheery flowers, you can go garish and multicoloured or choose the more demure varieties in richer single colours. Try a large container of a ...

As temperatures continue to stay warm, gardeners need to pay extra attention to their bedding plants – otherwise they risk losing them. The UK is fast approaching its fourth heatwave, which means many ...

America's favorite bedding flower is in big trouble, and that trouble has reached the Bay Area. Common impatiens, or Impatiens walleriana, once relatively free of pests, is now contracting a disease ...