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 ...

Tagging along with my daughter, Ann, to her conference in Palm Desert, Calif., last week was part of my vacation. The really, really hot part. “The surface of the sun” was what Ann called it. Yet the ...

Spring is coming soon, and it is time to start thinking about those little flowers that are always welcome in our gardens, the wild violets. Violets can be blue, white and yellow and really dress up a ...

Edible flowers are back in vogue, gracing the covers of glossy food magazines and adding panache to restaurant entrees. Today’s flower cookery revival is defined less by “glam” than the move toward ...