Family lore has it that Wanda Lunn planted her first iris in her grandmother’s garden when she was 3. She’s been hooked on gardening ever since. Lunn grows hundreds of irises, lilies, peonies and ...

Q: I love clematis as there are so many different flower shapes, sizes and colors to choose from. I would like to plant them in pots to add something pretty to my outdoor seating space and use their ...

A number of years ago, I had the wonderful fortune of visiting a garden called Ninfa. It was a garden just south of Rome, Italy that was very unique in many ways. There were many things that I loved ...

Fall is the perfect time to think about some of the 'harder' elements in your garden. When we talk about hard scaping, we are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images If you're looking for a spectacular blooming vine, you can stop your search in the clematis section of the garden ...

Although some Clematis have a reputation for being difficult to grow, Sweet Autumn Clematis (Clematis terniflora, formerly C. paniculata) is a vigorous vine that adds beauty and fragrance to a fall ...

Clematis brings fireworks to any garden. With hundreds of cultivars to choose from, these easy to grow, twining vines bring color, drama and sparkle. Flowers appear from spring to fall, in many colors ...

Martha Murdock, in a 2017 Over the Garden Gate article, made a picturesque observation concerning a fundamental element of gardening: “[V]ines are the threads that weave [a garden] together. They can ...

Clematis vines are beautiful bloomers -- if conditions are right to encourage flowering. This one is called Wisley. Q: I have a clematis vine that grows like crazy. It's been in the ground for 6 or 7 ...

Climbing and clambering, stretching and scrambling, clematis fulfills so many promises in the garden. "You can use them on screens, fences, archways, pergolas, up trees, winding through shrubs," says ...

One of my readers from Ashland asked me this 15 years ago: “My clematis vines are getting pretty old, maybe 20 years. There are a lot of brown limbs. Can the vine be cut back and will it come back and ...