Learn about roses and rain gardens, get lost in a sunflower field and find a planter workshop. This August, there are dozens of talks and classes to learn about plants, virtual and in-person in the ...

Sunflowers have a way of making gardens brighter and happier. They make beautiful and summery cut flowers for vases and bouquets. Sunflowers are also an excellent source of food for the wildlife in ...

A retired Waldo County teacher, Patsy Baldus, is the author of the 2024 children’s book Sunny Bear and the Secret of ...

Sunflowers are easy to grow from seed, and are a boon to cut-flower patches and pollinator gardens alike.

Late summer and early fall could not be any better. In the garden, after many flowers have passed, but the dahlias are still flowering, and the New England asters are about to flower, the sunflowers ...

To visit the 2025 version of this story, click here. The sun will come out at some point, in the sky and in the field. The region’s first big sunflower field started blooming in late July, bringing in ...

Most of us aren’t spending our days watching our houseplants grow. We see their signs of life only occasionally – a new leaf unfurled, a stem leaning toward the window. But in the summer of 1863, ...

As summer begins to wind down, New Hampshire is being treated to the bountiful brightness of sunflowers. In the Concord area, two festivals are taking place over the coming days: one hosted by Sun Fox ...