Plant early blooming native perennials to support pollinators, add color, and create a thriving spring garden filled with nectar and beauty.
Plant early blooming native perennials to support pollinators, add color, and create a thriving spring garden filled with nectar and beauty.
Select early spring flood-tolerant plants for wet areas to prevent erosion, attract pollinators, and enhance beauty and biodiversity in your garden.
Learn cold soil vegetable planting for early spring crops like peas, spinach, radishes, lettuce, carrots, beets, kale, and chard to get a head start.
Kickstart your garden with this early spring checklist: prune, divide perennials, prepare soil, start seeds indoors, and maintain tools for a vibrant season.
Bulbs are some of the easiest and most dramatic flowers you can add to your landscape and containers, and you can make them even more spectacular when you create layers of bulbs for lush growth and bursts of brilliant color. But how can you go about layering bulbs for the…
There’s nothing quite like a homegrown tomato! Store-bought just can’t compare to the exceptional freshness, quality, variety, and, most importantly, taste of a tomato you grow yourself. Raised bed tomato growing makes the whole process, from soil to table, convenient and easy for the home gardener. Why Raised Beds Raised…
This insect can be large and intimidating, but the praying mantis in your garden is a guest to welcome and celebrate, not one to fear or eliminate. Understanding these beneficial insects can help every gardener realize just how useful praying mantids can be. About the Praying Mantis There are more…
Unmatched for fragrance and beauty in the garden, scented geraniums are undoubtedly showstoppers. With many to choose from, each with its own distinctive habit and fragrance, scented geraniums are also great for hanging baskets, window boxes or any type of container. Although the colorful flowers are small, the leaves of…
Now is the time to start planning your entry garden. This welcoming patch has the power to set a warm and friendly tone for those who pass through your garden on the way to your front door. It does take some planning to set the proper mood, however, and you…
Gardening is a valuable skill and teaching young children to garden imparts to them much more than just how to grow plants. Raising the next generation of gardeners is incredibly rewarding and adapting gardening practices to engage kids will get children of all ages enthusiastic about soil, seeds, and harvests….