making it an excellent choice for a deer-resistant garden. To grow lavender, plant it in well-drained soil and full sun. It prefers dry conditions and requires minimal watering once established.

The downside of having a lush, abundant garden patch is that wild herbivores like deer and rabbits might get to your harvest before you do! Unfortunately, there's no way to make any garden 100% ...

Perhaps the answer is to plant deer-resistant plants in your garden. If you’ve tried your hand at planting a gorgeous garden only to see it get mowed down by some hungry deer, here is some ...

Pruning lavender effectively depends on the plant's hardiness. The plant experts at Ashridge have shared some invaluable advice on how to care for these plants, including the best time to prune them.

In my earlier years of gardening, I was attracted to and purchased unusual plants. Many of those didn’t survive beyond their ...

Steam distillation, a process used to extract the oil from the lavender plant’s flowers, is the path to creating this treasured commodity. The oil is often a key ingredient in diffusers ...

is a wall shrub or hedging plant usually grown for its intense orange-red flowers in early spring. It's best grown in a sunny or partly shaded spot in moist but well-drained soil. Like phlomis, ...

Lavenders are loved for their scented flowers that can be dried after they finish blooming. Bees adore them and they thrive in a sunny spot in well-drained soil. Which? Gardening magazine grew 23 ...

We’ve all suffered through one of the longest stretches of miserable, bone-chilling subzero temperatures in years in the Pittsburgh area. Surely that ...

Many beautiful plants ... as common lavender, is famous for the relaxing fragrance of its purple flowers, which are used in everything from candles and soaps to teas. An evergreen shrub that grows in ...

Will you be adding some new flowering plants ... lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) and rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) work well for our region and are very drought tolerant and deer resistant.