SNOW PEA PICKIN': Pick snow peas in the vegetable garden frequently. Ideally, the pods should be harvested when flat before ...

Imagine stepping into your backyard and finding a lush, private retreat—a space designed just for relaxation, reading, or ...

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Here are details about the Philadelphia Flower Show, featuring first-time exhibitors from Bucks County Community College's Floral Design Program.

If you choose to also start lettuce, cabbages, spinach or kohl rabe indoors, they can be planted outside in early March.

Arizona has 28 species of bats that eat annoying insects and pollinate plants. Here's when they come out and what to do if one gets in your house.

The Philadelphia Flower Show is back for 2025 with a new theme, some new exhibits, and new features, plus old favorites ...

Vera Strader was a writer extraordinaire. Her words on paper gave clear advice, creating pictures so absolute the smell from ...

This essay is a follow up on the photograph published in the Jan. 16 Commonwealth (pictured above) that showed duckweed ...

Beyond just aesthetics, the American lotus is popular with pollinators and aquatic wildlife, adding shade and shelter for ...

Surround a spring porch with plenty of colorful flowers to create a cheery welcome. Kate at A Hundred Affections uses a ...

"I plotted out on graph paper a rough shape of the garden I wanted, and then estimated how far the beech tree on the left of ...