One of the joys of gardening is discovering new plants of all kinds but especially those that have been passed along since our grandmother’s time in the garden. Such a discovery occurred last fall on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Late August and September are not my favorite times in the garden. Some flowers are dead, some soon will be, while many of the ...

If you’d like a fragrant flower for your late summer and fall garden, try a white butterfly ginger lily. The bloom’s perfume rivals a gardenia’s heady fragrance and is a desirable addition to a ...

CHENNAI: Gardening enthusiasts say that the most desirable plants to grow are either plants with bright flowers or those with a glorious scent.Ginger lilies are best among all the garden plants, as ...

Hot on the heels the featured plant in my last column, osmanthus, is another sweet-smelling fall bloomer, the ginger lily. Known botanically as Hedychium coronarium, ginger lily is a tropical ...

Strongly perfumed flowers rising on tall stems with dark green lush foliage make the ginger lily (Hedychium spp.) the flashy cousin to edible ginger, a favourite among gardeners. Ginger lilies are ...

A: You should aerate when the soil is so hard that air can't get to the roots and the roots can't expand. How to test? A few days after a rain, try to push a Phillips head screwdriver into the soil.

Hot on the heels of last week’s featured plant, osmanthus, is another sweet-smelling fall bloomer, the ginger lily. Known botanically as Hedychium coronarium, ginger lily is a tropical herbaceous ...