hardy plants

As summer heats up, it focuses gardeners on the challenges of exposed garden situations. One of the hottest parts of the garden is the area that gets full afternoon sun. It may be a garden, a balcony or part of your road frontage. The area may also be exposed to reflected heat from hard surfaces and to hot, dry westerly...

Gardens and plants in outdoor containers may have taken a battering from the elements in the last few years through drought, blazing heat, humidity and flooding rains, but now is not the time to throw in the trowel. Those extreme conditions actually revealed many plants that thrive with little fuss through just about anything. Here are a few basic care...