Joe Pye weed is a statement piece in any garden. Hardy in USDA Zones 3-10, it can reach up to 8 feet tall and wide. As long as you have the space, this native wildflower adds texture to a garden with ...

Editor’s note: Once a month, OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in FranklinCounty profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. If Ohio’s prairies and wetlands had a celebrity, it would ...

Avid gardeners know that the key to a lush landscape is pollinators. Butterflies, bees and tons of other insects including flies, beetles, and wasps, act as pollinators. And the more of these bugs you ...

The cornerstone of my first garden was, and still is, a weed. A giant of a plant, known to thrive in sun or semi-shade if the soil (or hard clay in my case) tends to be damp, Eupatorium purporium ...

Reader Martha from Macedonia recently wrote about a “volunteer” in her yard. (Volunteer is garden-speak for a plant that you are pretty sure you didn’t plant.) A Joe Pye weed appeared in one of her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A colorful dragonfly resting on an old log in a garden - Piroschka/Shutterstock Avid gardeners know that the key to a lush ...