This is the time of year when, frankly, I get ants in my pants. The last patch of snow in my yard has melted. I could finally drag the ladder around to the front of the house to take down Christmas ...

Flowering sweet Joe pye weed with groups of small pink blooms and green foliage. - Cynthia Shirk/Shutterstock While deer are essential to a balanced ecosystem, these herbivores primarily feed on ...

No matter where you live, native plants offer many choices for low-maintenance, drought-tolerant options to add to your garden or landscape. Joe-pye weed is one of these hardy native plants and a ...

In a shifting climate, with environmental diversity at risk, it’s never been more important to propagate native plants. Here’s how. By Margaret Roach The native perennial species of our meadows — ...

Editor’s note: Once a month, OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. If Ohio’s prairies and wetlands had a celebrity, it ...

The roadside flora goes through a change now in late August. The three dominant wildflowers of July have moved on to the next phase. Canada thistle has its flowers replaced by thick growths of fluffy ...