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16 Invasive Species Sold at Garden Centers You Should Never Buy

These 16 invasive species of plants are commonly sold at garden centers - beware of them and DO NOT buy them from your garden store!

Top 10 Plants You Can't Kill

Tough as nails, but they're pretty, too. Turn your black thumb into a green thumb with our picks for the top 10 plants you can't kill.

Power Perennials: Plants That Thrive No Matter What

Add some flower power to your garden this year with any of these tough-as-nails perennial bloomers. No green thumb required!

The 10 Worst Invasive Plants to Watch Out for in Your Region

Getting into the weeds on how to prep soil for gardening

Our minds and shovels are ready for full throttle outdoor planting — but is your soil ready?

Grow your own jungle: easy exotic plants

Tropical gardening is all too often associated with expense and poor results. But choose your plants wisely and you can turn your patch into a slice of verdant jungle, says James Wong

Photos: The Barn Nursery is more than plants, gardening supplies

Barn Nursery leaders recently started ramping up their social media efforts with Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Learn to read a nursery plant tag

FALLBROOK - Shopping for new plants for a home can be an exciting undertaking. Nurseries and garden centers are often home to dozens of types of plant species that come in various colors, leaf variations and sizes. Such variety can make choosing plants more fun while also making the process of buying plants a bit complicated, especially for novices...

Nursery owners worry about asphalt plant, developer says it's not happening

Despite a developer’s reassurances to the contrary, the owners of a longtime Box Elder County nursery worry an asphalt plant might be built next to their property.

A guide to watering in extreme heat

Don't wait until the soil is bone-dry and cracked. Find ways to continuously give your plants the water they need to stay healthy.

SFPUC Growing Plants in Hospital-Like Nursery to Protect Water Quality

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is trying something different at its new native plant nursery in Sunol. To avoid infecting plants, the botanists here take precautions more akin to a laboratory than a commercial nursery.

Starting from scratch: Gardening 101

Gardening is a wonderful hobby that provides many benefits. Here's how to get started.

Gardens: get back to the nursery

Cultivating a good relationship with your local nursery is the key to rewarding gardening. Here are a few of Dan Pearson's favourites

Gardening: How to shop wisely when buying seedlings or ‘starts’

Many gardeners don’t start all their plants from seed. We buy “starts,” or seedlings — nursery-grown plants to transplant into our gardens and containers.

The Texanist: What’s the Difference Between a Ranch and a Farm?

A New Braunfels man isn’t quite sure that he has a firm grasp on this fundamental aspect of Texas rural life.

Become an expert on bare roots by following these tips for selecting, planting

Elinor Teague writes a weekly gardening column for The Fresno (CA) Bee. This week, she gives tips on how to plant and prepare for bare root planting.

Master Gardener: Identifying the plant with green and black berries

Plus, here are tips for keeping skunks, and their spray, away.