Not necessarily. Two new books offer some advice on what to expect when you decide to leave your lawn behind.

Frances Palmer has been making ceramics and growing dahlias in her Connecticut garden for three decades: “They’re just so joyous.”

From the choice and arrangement of your pots to how you think about what goes in them, one garden designer has some advice for you.

And no, it’s not because it stinks like rotten meat. (Just for the record, they don’t all have a rancid smell.)

This spring, don’t forage for wild edible plants. Instead, welcome them into your garden.

These heirloom cucumber varieties, some of which date to ancient Egypt, ‘are never bitter, and always easy on the digestion.’

Charles Dowding, a longtime proponent, insists that it’s not only easier than what you’re doing now, but it actually works. Here’s how.

Some of the most visually appealing ones are also delicious. Here’s how to choose — and grow — the best ones.

Rule No. 1: “You don’t have to just have a plain-Jane green plant.” But here’s what you do have to do — to find the...

For a quarter of a century, Ira Wallace has nurtured seeds and gardeners: ‘When you say her name in our community, all this love comes...