Whether you grow them at home or source them from stores, many wild plants, mushrooms, and berries offer exceptional ...

These low-growing plants look beautiful and taste delicious. Orest Lyzhechka / Getty Images Ground covers have many benefits in the landscape—they can choke out weeds, control erosion on slopes, fill ...

Like a lot of people who first find themselves interested in plants, my daughter especially loves to learn about plants she can eat. In our garden, she loves mountain mint (Pycnanthemum muticum) and ...

Weekend Gardener Valle Novak offers guidance on creating edible landscapes featuring berries, herbs, vegetables, flowers, and ...

After plunging a spade into a patch of soil, Lynn Landes jumps on it several times, landing her full weight on it each time to drive it deep into the soil. Determined, she begins to wedge a burdock ...

Yes, it's actually possible to create beautiful commercial landscapes that contain nothing but edible plants. For residential gardens, it's even easier. Here's a menu of great landscape plants that ...

The first plant I taught each of my three kids to identify was poison ivy. Making sure they knew how to avoid a plant that can cause such discomfort was important to me as a parent. Although they ...