Wicking beds and self-watering plant pots can produce veggies, herbs, and flowers with less water, and are simple enough to build yourself. Here's how to create one from a food-grade plastic barrel.

Buddleia is often dismissed as a weedy shrub, spotted growing in cracks by railway tracks or abandoned car lots. But I think we should give more time to this flowering plant. Yes, it is tough and ...

I’ve never been one to have a green thumb. I admittedly have trouble keeping the most low-maintenance plants alive and healthy — even my most neglect-friendly succulents and cactuses end up dead after ...