The pincushion is a long-blooming flower that adds pretty garden color. Fact checked by Khara Scheppmann Scabiosa are flowers that look a little like something you'd stick your sewing needles in.

• Start seeds of spring and summer vegetables: beets, broccoli, chard, carrots, squash, tomato, peppers, watermelon, pumpkins, and others. Use the pots you sterilized for this purpose last month. • ...

“You’re going to get scabies from those things!” my mother used to say when I brought home a thrift store find. Fortunately, you can’t actually contract this rather vile mite from clothing, but a few ...

Growth habit: A low-growing evergreen perennial, treated as an annual in Florida; forms a rosette of foliage up to 10 inches tall and wide; flower stalks are leafless and grow to 18 inches tall. The ...

NOT every garden flower can be a star of the show, in the way that roses and lilies are stars. There have to be some supporting actors in every dramatic production, the reliable performers that ...

We picked the native pincushion cactus because sometimes, if it's warm, they can bloom in February. Hahahaha. Everyone saw the snow yesterday, right?? A few are in bloom but that means we could be ...