As a gardener, I have grown plants in my garden that I want to reproduce because they have performed well and have attracted many pollinators. While some plants are easier to divide with a shovel, ...

What can be more fun than collecting seeds from some of your favorite flowers and vegetables to share with others or to store and plant for next year’s harvest and/or enjoyment. For centuries various ...

Coneflower, also known as echinacea, is a classic bloom that perfectly matches the ambiance of a cottage-core garden. These North American natives with their disk florets and dainty petals are a ...

Seeds are amazing little wonders of nature. From the mustard seed to an acorn, the seed is jam-packed with all the genetics needed for a whole new plant. Many of us start seeds in late winter in ...

I have started collecting seeds from my gardens for next year. Collecting seeds from plants in your garden is fun, and now is the time to do it since plants are setting seeds with the coming of winter ...

ANGUS STEWART: One of my most satisfying pastimes in gardening is collecting native plant seed, but there is nothing more frustrating than arriving a day or two too late and finding that the seed pods ...

As the autumn season progresses, many of our annual and perennial flowers are sporting seed heads or fruit. If you examine the tops of spent flower spikes, you will usually see a nice seed head with ...

Growing a flower garden from seed need not be a serendipitous event. Surely, some of the annuals from the previous year will pop up where last year’s plants withered and everywhere else the wind may ...

We may be heading into the cooler months, but this doesn’t mean you should put your gardening gloves down just yet. In fact, it’s time for one of the year’s most fun gardening jobs: collecting seeds ...

The Nature Conservancy excels at native plant restoration and ecosystem stewardship on a landscape-wide scale. By creating, extending and conserving native habitat, they provide permanent and ...

Q: The Norway Spruce trees that border our yard are dying, and they have holes in the bark. Do you know what could be causing this? Is there anything we can do to stop it and save the ones that are ...

Red maple, little bluestem, nannyberry and salt grass are a few of the natural warriors being recruited to help protect Connecticut’s coastal regions from the ravages of storms related to climate ...