The National Garden Bureau designates a specific plant to celebrate each year. The goal is to promote awareness, education and appreciation for that particular plant — and this year, one of the ...

The showy, easy-to-grow flowers of amaryllis effortlessly elevate your holiday decor. These stars are not divas, though. Growing amaryllis couldn’t be easier, making them an ideal hostess gift or ...

When stores start to fill the shelves with pumpkin spice everything, from Twinkies to Cheerios, it can only mean one thing — ...

A popular stocking stuffer at Christmas time is the prepackaged amaryllis bulbs you see in many stores. The box provides the bulb, soil and pot and all you have to do is plant it and wait six weeks or ...

Q: We have an Amaryllis plant that is almost spent. Can it be saved for another year? This has been the best one we have ever had. The first stalk had four blooms. The second stalk had five blooms. We ...

Garden Variety is an occasional column about growing plants without grief. The amaryllis plant has a superpower: In just a few weeks in a tiny pot of dirt, this giant onion-looking thing sprouts a ...

Now that Twelfth Night has passed and the Christmas season is officially over, what to do with all those holiday plants bedecking your home? I still feel a wee twinge of guilt when I toss a pretty red ...

QUESTION: How do I preserve my amaryllis bulb indoors now that it has finished blooming? Do I cut the leaves back? I want to eventually plant it in the garden. --Jean ANSWER: Even if you intend to ...

Pink amaryllis plants aren’t quite as common as the red varieties but they are equally glorious. Amaryllis are common winter gift plants due to their propensity to bloom during the holidays and beyond ...