SPECIES: Iberis (eye-beer’is for candytuft) sempervirens (sem-per-vy’renz for evergreen). Candytuft named for its place of origin, the English Candia, meaning Crete. Annual candytuft was grown in ...

Q: I have a rockery with beautiful white candytuft that is about done blooming. My creeping phlox is also finished. Should I be pruning these rock garden plants or anything? This is my first home and ...

Candytuft (Iberis sempervirens) is a delicate evergreen perennial that grows quickly, producing a carpet of white flowers, ...

Flowers are the ephemerals of the garden. They vanish without a trace at the end of each season, so you would hardly think them worth pruning during their brief stay. Yet pruning can help make more ...

Flowers are the ephemerals of the garden. They vanish without a trace at the end of each season, so you would hardly think them worth pruning during their brief stay. Yet pruning can help make more ...

Annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, exotic tropical plants: Almost anything that grows can be placed in the garden this month or, in the case of bulbs, was put there last year so it would bloom in ...

Just like most of the modern fruit trees that were bred over the past few centuries to produce unnaturally large and abundant fruit, almost all modern roses have been bred for unnaturally large ...