Growing tomatoes in containers can be incredibly rewarding or flat-out disastrous. Sometimes epic failures can happen for reasons beyond your control like tomato blight or a ridiculously wet or cold ...

Different types of flowers in a container garden - Sagarmanis/Getty Images When brainstorming the design of your garden, one of the most important things to consider is how plants will grow over time.

For the dozens of years Barbara Wise has been gardening for herself and others as well as teaching and writing about gardening, she has watched plant lovers make the same mistakes. They pick ...