Home & Garden

Four events are planned from March through July in LancasterHistory’s Tanger Arboretum Nature Series.

Pandemic gardeners continue to dig in.

Pantone’s color of the year, Peach Fuzz, is described as a velvety gentle peach whose all-embracing spirit enriches heart, mind and body.

Here’s a roundup of garden and plant activities in the Lancaster County region in January. 

When the Christmas tree comes down, it can have a second life helping other plants.

How much do you know about the plants of Christmas? Here are fascinating facts about nine holiday plants.

An artifical tree buried in the garage for 2 decades becomes a new outdoor decoration. 

Under the right conditions, Christmas cacti are the holiday plants that keep blooming, and not just for years. They can thrive for generations.

It’s a green Christmas in the garden spot. Lancaster County greenhouses and plant sellers have a rainbow of plants from red winterberries to poinsettias painted purple and sprinkled with glitter.

We often overlook a lush native evergreen that is ubiquitous in our landscapes — the American arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis).

 While standing at a picture window at home in New Holland and admiring our lawn and neighborhood on a sunny late afternoon in mid-November, I noticed several beautiful American robins had gathered on a tall, deciduous tree, devoid of foliage. And I saw more robins fluttering from all direct…

A Retro Christmas brings ’40s, ’50s and ’60s to nearly 100 trees and more than a half a million lights at Longwood Gardens.