Gardening Articles

Creeping Phlox is a spring blooming ground cover that looks like a carpet of color in the landscape.

Gardening and landscaping at homes where there is clay soil can be a challenge. There are two easy ways to have a healthy, beautiful and successful landscape.

This is a beautiful little cherry tree with semi-double blossom that starts as pink buds opening to white flowers with pink eyes.

The image of the butterfly. It represents the beauty of nature, the oncoming of spring, metamorphosis and a change for the better.

Forsythia is a common sight in Rochester this time of year. While everything else is still bare, Forsythia seems to just glow with bright yellow flowers.

Many of the Easter plants that The Garden Factory grows in our greenhouses are hardy for the Rochester area and can be planted outside after you enjoy them for Easter.

The Black Walnut tree (Juglans nigra) is an allelopathic plant. This means that it can suppresses the growth of many different types of plant.

Eranthis hyemalis, or Winter Aconite, is the first flower you will see showing it’s face in late winter sprouting up right through the early March dustings of snow.

The eggs of the Iris bore are laid on the leaves and the debris of leaves around the plant and over winter there.

What is that weird looking stuff on the bark of my tree???