Fortunately, you can defend your entire vegetable garden with a single companion plant: marigolds. Marigolds aren't just ...

Marigolds are the ultimate meeting of pretty and practical. These vibrant flowers give off a pungent odor that is known to repel everyone from aphids to deer. It's not necessarily so bad that the ...

Marigolds are the flower of October. I have always loved Marigolds, not just because October is my birth month, but for their beautiful bronze, bright red-orange and yellows flowers. They add a nice ...

It’s a no-brainer. Growing flowers from seed is less expensive than buying trays of seedlings, and that is especially true for garden flowers that show off best when planted en masse like alyssum, ...

Grandmother planted marigolds in her vegetable garden because that’s what her mother did. Maybe she heard they were good for pest control, but we know they have no effect on the majority of garden ...

The marigold, a leading contender for our national floral emblem until Congress chose the rose last fall, will bask in its own glory as the 1987 Flower of the Year. The National Garden Bureau, which ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The most coveted garden flowers tend to be choice, delicate, exquisite or elegant, and preferably also fragrant. Roses or lilies, but definitely not marigolds. Not many people would describe the fat, ...