Spring is one of the best times of the year! You poetically witness Mother Nature evolve the land from a winter brown to ...

If you visit Texas in spring, especially during the month of April, you will not be able to miss the wildflowers bloomin ...

The ever-repeating cycles of nature have once again shifted gears. Gone are the warm, green, flower filled days of summer, replaced by the cold air, grays and browns of dormant or dead vegetation, ...

This is sometimes referred to as double dormancy. Seeds with morpho-physiological dormancy require both warm and cold ...

While there are many gardening jobs to be getting on with in February, there are also a few that you should steer clear of, ...

Snowdrops and spring flowers are the stars of the show as the National Garden Scheme gets underway in 2025 with early ...

This essay is a follow up on the photograph published in the Jan. 16 Commonwealth (pictured above) that showed duckweed ...

The emptiness of nature’s winter pantry is giving way to an abundant buffet as our migrating birds return. Maple and basswood trees extend a welcome, offering up sweet ambrosia to sustain ...

Even though the upcoming selection of Valentine’s Day goodies are all under $25, they won’t betray their reasonable price point. Find actually impressive, unique and non-junky items like a set of pink ...

Normal blankets can keep you warm, but when the temperature drops and you need extra coziness, a heated blanket can be perfect. These work by distributing the heat evenly throughout the blanket ...

It's also worth knowing that claimed running costs for electric blankets and heated throws are usually based on the blanket's lowest power setting. Our repeated testing over the years has found that ...

Ferry-Morse, one of the leading and oldest gardening seed brands in the United States, part of the Central Garden & Pet Company portfolio (NASDAQ: CENT) (NASDAQ: CENTA), is starting the gardening ...