9 of the Best Cabbage Varieties | Gardener's Path

Quick! Picture a wisteria vine. I bet you conjured up something with lilac flowers on long racemes. Maybe you even imagined an aggressive woody vine that will try to take over your garden.Forget all that.While yo

Zinnias are a popular mainstay of the annual flower garden, grown from seed to fill the flowerbeds with vibrant color. Blooms sit atop tall stalks perfect for cutting, or dwarf plants are suited to growing in containers.Though they’ll do well in gardens across a huge swa

Not just another pretty face in a lush and lazy garden, yarrow (Achillea) earns its keep in the worst soils with the least amount of water.If you’ve got barren areas crying out for color, it’s yarrow to the rescue!

Pumpkins spur the imagination, from the 19th century idea of using them for jack-o’-lanterns to Cinderella and her spellbound pumpkin carriage.But along with folksy celebrations and fai

Are you choosing sunflower cultivars to grow in your garden or in containers? I hope some of my favorites might become your favorites, too.I must warn you, though. When it comes to sunflo

Homegrown celery, Apium graveolens, is delicious. It’s nothing like the stringy, tasteless stalks you buy in the grocery store. But did you know there are a number of different cultivars available?I wouldn’t blame someone for thinking that t

There are so many magnolias to choose from. Not only are there hundreds of species, dozens of them are common in cultivation.Then there are the many, many c

I first met arugula, Eruca sativa, when I made a spring panzanella salad several years ago. I’d never used the leafy green before, but I was hooked from the first peppery bite.And when I started shopping for seeds to grow my own,

Kale, Brassica oleracea var. acephala, is a cool weather crop that can be planted early in the spring and late in the summer.In our guide to growing kale,

Rhubarb (Rheum rhabarbarum) grows all over the place up here in Alaska, and no wonder: it’s a supremely cold-hardy plant, although most cultivars thrive best in USDA Hardiness Zones 3-8.Like celery, this plant features a firm petio

Viburnum species are woody shrubs with clusters of blossoms in shades of cream, white, or pink. They flower from late winter into spring, or spring into summer.We link to vendors to help you

Sampling the first crisp, sweet radish from your own garden is pure delight. I would argue that it’s the top springtime taste sensation for the vegetable gardener.But the best radish variety to enjoy for that spring