A longtime garden writer shares her go-to sources for flower, veggie, and herb seeds.

Give your garden a head start on summer with rare blue blooms that look almost too vivid to be real – all grown easily from ...

A gardening expert names the fast-growing flower seeds you can plant today to grow a beautiful garden in weeks. Hitting up your local plant nursery may feel like sensory overload: There are countless ...

Roman Gonzalez is the creator of the urban gardening blog MrBrownThumb, founder of the Chicago Seed Library, and a co-founder of One Seed Chicago. Summer is prime seed saving season for me. I collect ...

I have quite a few leftover vegetable seeds. How can I make sure they are viable before I plant them or buy more?

More than 30 years ago, a group of scientists planted 4,200 seeds of the rare Pitcher’s thistle in the sandy dunes of the ...

There are a lot of gardening opportunities in the autumn in our area. One of the easiest and most interesting is to plant wildflower seeds for spring blooms. Start by identifying a portion of your ...

Seeds almost always germinate better at higher temperatures, so buy an inexpensive seed germination heat mat if you don’t ...