"Leave any part of the taproot in the ground and you may get a new plant regrowing from what was left behind." ...

Typically, plants with taproots don't take division well. Milkweed ( Asclepias spp.), a North American native perennial, ...

We do incredibly stupid things with Key West trees. Like the mango tree in my side yard, which breaks all the rules for ...

Why dandelions keep coming back—and how to finally stop them.

For a shady garden bed, you may lean towards growing hostas, but this beautiful flowering plant can thrive in he shade and ...

The often vilified plant is edible, has medicinal properties, supports pollinators and improves soil quality.

Many herbs are hard to grow from seed (ahem, parsley!), but there are some quick-germinating types: Here are the herbs that ...

Many of these types of weeds are those with rhizomes (or roots with nodes) like horsetail, and to incompletely pull them out or just breaking off the top just pinches them. That pinch causes a Medusa ...

Heavy rains and hail have triggered widespread nutrient deficiencies, disease pressure and weed threats in parts of Illinois ...

Shopping for plants is expensive. See our list of the easiest perennials to grow from seed and create the garden of your ...

If a low, sprawling weed with three small leaves and tight clusters of bright yellow flowers has started creeping across the ...

One of the most brilliantly flowering woody plants at this time of year is presently in full bloom in my front yard. Known as ...