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Many flowering bushes call the Pacific Northwest home, and while hummingbirds are always on the move, these plants will coax ...

Pruning is an essential gardening task for keeping plants in shape - and it can also mean more flowers and fruits next year ...

Roses are some of the hardiest and most resilient plants in the garden, but they can still suffer at the hands of harsh ...

My Russian sages ( Perovskia —which by the way are not from Russia or in the sage family) were still sporting silver leaves and about half of their tall, arching sprays of teensy lavender flower ...

New to gardening? Cultivate your green thumb with this jargon-busting gardening glossary. Discover what the most popular ...

Attractive berries, found on deciduous hollies, pyracanthas and wintergreens, will add wonderful pops of colour, as well as ...

With this weird, long warm fall, it’s easy to put off putting your garden to bed for the winter. But weather can change very ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Lenovo Group Ltd posted a 22% rise in revenue in its fiscal second quarter from a year earlier, as the ...

Nicola Roberts rose to fame more than 20 years ago - first arriving on our TV screens as a hopeful for a new girl group on ...

As the leaves fall they can be raked up on to and around your shrubberies, thus increasing the lands fertility and in frosty winter mornings birds, thrushes and blackbirds in particular will happily ...