Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’re planting perennials, make sure you choose those that will survive winters in your USDA Hardiness zone (find yours here).

A cut flower garden doesn't have to be anything fancy. You can start by designating one flower bed for growing your favorite perennials and annuals for cutting. Then, if you find that you're using ...

Perfect for making your own bouquets.

A cutting garden is planted with flowers that are intended for indoor displays. Here are the top seven flowers that bloom ...

A cut flower garden brings joy to the grower—that’s you!—and to anyone lucky enough to receive one of your homegrown bouquets. It’s a simple, soul-nourishing way to add beauty, fragrance, and color to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bouquet of garden flowers will light up any room, but some care is required to keep them from ...

Every spring, I cut fragrant lilac stems from the two bushes flanking my front gate at my home on Long Island, N.Y., and set them in a vase indoors, where their fragrance perfumes the entire first ...

Fresh flowers can bring the beauty of nature inside the home and are also a nice homegrown gift to share with others. For gardeners that don’t want to sacrifice their bedding plants and patio flowers ...

Cut flowers sounded easy when I started gardening. Just plant some flowers and then cut them, right? Well, there is a lot more to it than that. Cut flowers are often grown from specific varieties that ...

There are flower beds that are primarily meant to look beautiful. And there are those that are mainly intended to yield produce. Cut flower beds can do both. How gardening for the vase works and which ...

Back when my wife and I were grad students in Illinois, we got by on Saturday morning samples from the local IGA and Swedish meatballs and egg rolls for happy hour at the local pub. The two of us ...

A slew of research and attention has been given to peonies in recent years, but research on growing other cut flowers in Fairbanks and Alaska has been limited in the last decade. To get an idea of ...