A bit of grooming and care will keep your flower gardens looking their best throughout the hot summer months and into fall. Remove the flower stems of salvias, veronicas and similar flowers as the ...

Ground covers — low-growing plants that mat, sprawl, trail, or clump on the ground — play a valuable role in the landscape. They fill in gaps in flower beds, adding color, texture, and depth.

It's not unusual to have to get rid of grass growing in your flower beds. After all, grass can spread easily via stray seeds taking hold, and through its roots. Prevention is easiest and for this, ...

•“The Well-Tended Perennial Garden” by Tracy DiSabato-Aust. Timber Press. 383 pages. $34.95. Flower-bed maintenance is not a topic most people embrace as good reading. But this book possesses so much ...

MUKWONAGO, WI — A bit of grooming and care will keep flower gardens looking their best throughout the hot summer months and into fall. Remove the flower stems of salvias, veronicas and similar flowers ...