Lilacs have graced gardens for centuries, with their fragrant clusters of purple, white, and pink flowers heralding the ...

When I bought my house I inherited a classic Texas Yellow Rose near the front door. I have never grown roses before, my preferred plants are vegetables, herbs and fruits. I have since come around on ...

Black spot disease is the "most common and troublesome" affliction affecting rose bushes, and gardeners are being urged to ...

One of the main reasons my partner and I fell for a small, century-old bungalow in Oakland's Temescal district was its sunny, attractively unkempt garden. As if on retainer from the real estate agent, ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Seeing as how it is National Rose Month, did you know Salt Lake City used to be home to one of the largest municipal rose garden’s in the entire country? It's a story that began to ...

Long before Jerry Garcia picked his first 20-minute guitar solo, "deadhead" was something you did to wilting roses. So when gardeners at Oakland's Morcom Rose Garden put out the call for volunteer ...

Wendy Richardson trims the roses before planting to prevent them from going into shock from the heat. Honey perfume. Henry Fonda. Love and peace. Sheer bliss. Royal gold. White lightnin’. Sunsprite.

Spring doesn’t always arrive with a bang in L.A. Temperatures tiptoe up and the sun waits a little longer to set, but there isn’t exactly a flashing sign to tell us that we’re in the vernal glow of a ...