Get your garden started with early-blooming, low-maintenance spring flowers that add a pop to any yard in April.

Turns out, the best blooms don’t always chase the sun.

Deadheading becomes more effective once the plant is established. At that point, removing spent blooms encourages new ones without disrupting the plant’s foundation. Timing it this way leads to fuller ...

April in central Ohio means variable weather. Learn what to plant now and what to wait on, including the versatile ...

This article was last updated on 02.04.2026. Come spring, nature bursts into bloom everywhere you look. Of course, most of us ...

The days are getting longer, the temperatures are warming, and the wild birds are celebrating each dawn with songs. Or at least you wish all that was happening as your garden gets covered in yet ...

People don’t tend to pay much attention to red maple flowers. But they play a vital role in New Jersey's natural habitats each spring.

This past week gave us all sorts of changes from more snow in one system than we got almost the entire winter. Then within a ...

Winter is a long season here, and I miss the colors of the gardening season. Pruning is a favorite gardening task of mine and I always try to bring some stems into the house to get a preview of some ...

About 190 million Americans are experiencing an early start to spring, based on the behavior of lilac and honeysuckle, data ...

Now that we have passed the vernal equinox, sunlight is about 12 1/2 hours each day (sunrise 7 a.m., sunset nearly 7:30 p.m.) ...

"Here in NY, some resident species are already breeding, but many migratory species are still migrating or just beginning to ...