Red maple — a fast-growing, low-maintenance Eastern native — has spectacular fall foliage and early-spring flowers that feed pollinators

Try these delightfully exotic stunners for paintbox colors, deep fragrance and intricately detailed petals

Straw bales are cheap, easy to find and DIY-friendly. Get the basics on building with this renewable, ecofriendly material

When it comes to adding drama, texture and panache to a pot, these strappy species are hard to beat

Species native to and characteristic of your region firmly root your garden and landscape

Its ethereal beauty comes from complex forms and wide-ranging colors, but columbine’s benefits are highly attractive too

It's National Cat Day: Ask not what your cat can do for you (because it will ignore you) but what you can do for your cat

The parade of pollinator antics is another reason to create a garden that nurtures native bees

Get knockout spring blooms on spiky stems by planting these bulbs before the ground freezes

When you discover how hard bees work for our food supply, you may never garden without them in mind again