Plants can add different sensory experiences to your garden. They can make your outdoor space feel bold or meek, vibrant or reserved, exotic or melancholy. Whether a container or flower bed, here are some great tips.

The number one cause of injuries while mowing the lawn is flying debris. Top that off with this: believe it or not, a recent Consumer Reports poll found that 12 percent of surveyed homeowners drink beer while mowing their lawns.

Gardeners often yearn for a plant belonging to a friend or relative. While you can often buy one like it, it is fun and meaningful to grow one from a cutting taken starting in mid-June and into the summer.

Even if you are not a gardener, you may have neighbors or relatives who bestow generous amounts of fresh vegetables upon you. If you're lucky, you may have real, honest-to-goodness tomatoes -- deep red, ripe and sweet.

It took hours to get those impatiens looking just right and those pole beans growing, only to have them mowed down by hungry deer. This year, it's time to fight back. While quick fixes are available at stores - no, not guns.

More than a third of gardening Americans are adding vegetable garden. We're digging into our gardens with a renewed sense of expectation, responsibility and connectivity within the global ecosphere.

Before lighting their citronella candles and coating their skin with those unpleasant smelling insect repellents, consumers should head to their local garden centers. For instance, did you know that catnip works pretty well?

Biblical plants can be ornamental, medicinal and culinary. According to the Rev. Marsh Hudson-Knapp, which accounts in large part for the Bible garden he helped established adjacent to his church a quarter-century ago.