Fancy bringing a big smile to the face of your garden? Grow hardy annuals. A few packets of seeds sown this Easter weekend could result in a summer-long succession of cheerful colours. Annuals are ...

In the depths of winter, looking through a seed catalog is the gardener’s equivalent of planning a summer vacation—a chance to fantasize about warmer days ahead. What's even more fun is getting the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Easter is excellently placed this year for gardeners. Fine weather permitting, we can have four days of intense ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large variety of seed packets arranged on the floor - eurobanks/Shutterstock Growing plants from seed is a rewarding experience, ...

Depending on where you store them and what types of seeds they contain, your old, dog-eared seed packets may or may not be worth using this season. Seeds are alive, but they do not live forever.

In a typical year, peonies and dahlias from Creekside Growers in Delhi end up in wedding bouquets, at funeral homes, and on conference room tables from Thunder Bay to Prince Edward Island. This year, ...

Growing plants from seed is a rewarding experience, not to mention a low-cost way to end up with oodles of plants. But if you're just looking at the front of the packet when you shop, you may be ...