Bring on the butterflies with this colorful, hardy perennial rock star.

Those tasty Asian pears you buy in the grocery store can be grown in your own backyard.

When you picture eggplants, do you think of huge purple monsters the size of a canoe? Think again. Today’s eggplants come in a variety of interesting colors and sizes.

A generation ago, gardeners helped save bluebirds from extinction.  Continue the tradition by offering these beauties food and shelter.

This blooming tree is beautiful—and it provides fruit for pie!

This cousin of ficus is less fussy but just as pretty as a houseplant.

Romanesco broccoli—is it a work of art or is it dinner?

This adaptable spring bloomer will light up gardens on either side of the Mason-Dixon line.

This sweet spring bloomer is shade-tolerant, true-blue and gorgeous.

Little candles cacti produce cute colonies of spiny spheres.