Culture | Gardening | Diggin' It
- Green in the winter garden
Tired of your winter garden being all brown? Here are four plants that will green it up.
- New roses from David Austin for 2013
British rose breeder David Austin introduces six new English roses for 2013.
- A garden writer heads to Phoenix, where they really turn up the heat
An Iowa gardener hikes the Phoenix Mountains to enjoy the saguaro cactus plants -- and the winter heat.
- How much do you know about poinsettias?
Take our true-false quiz to see how much you know about the holiday's most popular indoor plant, the poinsettia.
- Winter soil care
Gardeners who live in California and other mild climates can do their gardens a favor by getting a start now, in early winter, on improving and caring for the soil. That ensures future success.
- Oriental poppies: Glamour girls of the garden
Oriental poppies have their drawbacks in the garden, but it's hard to resist their glamorous good looks.
- Lavender is a fragrant addition to summer gardens
Beloved for fragrance, lavender is a colorful charmer in summer gardens and containers
- Growing and cooking with lavender and rice
A gardener and a chef give tips on growing and cooking with lavender -- and rice -- including a great recipe.
- Grow the roses that starred in Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee celebration
Thousands of David Austin English Roses perfumed the Thames during Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee celebration. You can grow many of them.
- A new mock orange reblooms
Beloved for its sensational spicy fragrance, mock orange is making a comeback, with many exciting new cultivars. One reblooms in late summer.
- Ukraine’s Pokrovsk was about to fall to Russia 2 months ago. It’s hanging on.
- Howard University hoped to make history. Now it’s ready for a different role.
- Cover StoryWomen in construction find solidarity as ‘sisters in the brotherhood’
- Facing Trump 2.0, Palestinians voice rising concern: What’s our plan?
- Worries rise over a Trump ‘warrior board’ to remove officers ‘unfit for leadership’