When fall approaches, I often lament the loss of floral displays that have faithfully graced my garden for months. But Mother Nature never disappoints because just as summer flowers fade away, autumn colors emerge. By adding colorful shrubs to your...

Master greenhouse gardening For years my daily walks would take me past backyard greenhouse. In winter, I was drawn to brilliantly colored flowers protected from the snow glistening outside. I often dreamed of the day when I could afford to...

Variegated plants are hard to resist with their strikingly colorful leaves. Patterns are created in stripes, speckles, dots, and delicately trimmed edges. There are so many different colors and patterns, it’s hard to choose among them. There’s no limit to...

Ask anyone familiar with hydroponic gardening and they are likely to tell you it’s the wave of the future. As the world’s population increases and pressure on Earth’s resources is pushed toward the extreme, hydroponics offers a sustainable alternative. Hydroponic...

I’ve always loved science, so when a high school counselor encouraged me to take Latin, I agreed. It was the common language for scientific work in the Middle Ages and was used to name species of organisms. In the 18th...

Did you know the Environmental Protection Agency estimates consumers in the United States generate over 4 pounds of trash per day on average? That’s nearly 1,500 pounds each year. Even more stunning is how much of that waste is food....