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Jan 19
Allium Care: How to Grow Ornamental Alliums
Allium Care: How to Grow Ornamental Alliums Ornamental alliums bring one of the most distinctive flower shapes to the garden. Their spherical clusters can look like purple fireworks suspended above a border, with dozens—or sometimes hundreds—of tiny star-shaped flowers forming a single globe at the top of a tall, leafless stem. The best-known ornamental alliums …
Jan 19
Astrantia Care: How to Grow & Care for Masterwort
Astrantia is one of those flowers that becomes more interesting the closer you look. From a distance, its blooms appear as soft clusters of pink, white, burgundy, or greenish flowers floating above leafy clumps. Up close, each flower head reveals an intricate arrangement of tiny flowers surrounded by papery, star-shaped bracts. That distinctive appearance has …
Dec 21
Regenerative Gardening: How to Build Healthy Soil & a More Resilient Yard
Regenerative gardening begins with a simple change in perspective: instead of treating the garden as a collection of plants that constantly need fertilizer, irrigation, pesticides, and correction, you begin treating the entire yard as a living system. The soil beneath a perennial bed is not merely something that holds roots upright. It contains minerals, organic …
Dec 21
Winter Gardening Checklist: Essential Tasks to Prepare for Spring
Winter may look like the quietest season in the garden, but it is one of the best times to protect what you already have, correct lingering problems, and prepare for a smoother start when spring arrives. The important word is prepare. Winter gardening is not about finding busywork simply because the flower beds are dormant. …
Dec 21
Best Vegetables to Grow in Winter: Cold-Hardy Crops for the Garden
The vegetable garden does not necessarily have to shut down with the first frost. Kale can remain standing after many summer crops have collapsed, carrots can stay protected beneath a thick layer of mulch, spinach can survive surprisingly cold conditions, and leeks may wait patiently in the soil until you are ready to harvest them. …
Dec 02
Essential Gardening Tools: What Every Gardener Really Needs
Walk into a garden center and it is easy to leave with the impression that successful gardening requires an entire shed full of specialized tools. Shelves are packed with cultivators, weeders, bulb planters, soil knives, edgers, aerators, pruning gadgets, powered equipment, and accessories designed for highly specific tasks. Most gardeners need far less. A small …
Sep 03
Orchid Care: How to Grow & Rebloom Orchids Indoors
Orchids have a reputation for being difficult houseplants, but that reputation is often undeserved. The problem is usually not that orchids are impossibly demanding. It is that they are cared for as though they were ordinary houseplants growing in ordinary potting soil. Many popular indoor orchids naturally grow with their roots exposed to air, attached …
Jul 16
Types of Daisies: Beautiful Daisy Varieties to Grow in the Garden
Few flowers are as instantly recognizable as a daisy. A ring of colorful or white petals surrounding a contrasting center creates one of the simplest flower shapes in the garden, yet plants described as “daisies” are remarkably diverse. Some grow as hardy perennials that return for years. Others are tender perennials grown as annuals in …
Jun 10
Fuchsia Care: How to Grow Fuchsias in Pots, Hanging Baskets & Gardens
Few flowering plants create the same effect as a fuchsia in full bloom. Their dangling flowers look almost like tiny lanterns or ballerinas, often combining deep purple, magenta, pink, red, white, and coral within a single bloom. Trailing varieties spill beautifully from hanging baskets, upright types fill patio containers with color, and hardy fuchsias can …
Jun 03
Wax Begonia Care: How to Grow Wax Begonias in Beds & Containers
Wax begonias are among the most dependable flowering plants for beds, borders, containers, and partially shaded gardens. Their compact growth, glossy foliage, and almost continuous production of small pink, red, or white flowers make them useful from late spring until frost, often with remarkably little maintenance. They are also more versatile than their old-fashioned reputation …
