Mar 04 2025
March can feel like the beginning of gardening season, but what you can actually plant depends heavily on where you live. In warm climates, gardeners may already be direct-sowing vegetables and planting flowers outdoors. In colder regions, the ground may still be frozen and the most productive work is happening indoors under grow lights. That …
Feb 20 2025
Growing roses from cuttings is one of the simplest ways to propagate a favorite plant. Instead of starting from seed, you take a healthy section of stem from an existing rose and encourage it to produce its own roots. The process is inexpensive, beginner-friendly, and especially useful if you want to preserve a rose you …
Jan 18 2025
Delphiniums are among the most dramatic flowers in a summer garden. Their tall spikes of blue, purple, pink, and white blooms can reach well above surrounding plants, giving borders and cottage gardens a vertical burst of color. Because of that striking appearance, delphiniums have also collected a long list of symbolic meanings. They are often …
Jun 27 2024
Orchids have a reputation for being delicate, demanding houseplants, but many of the orchids sold in garden centers and grocery stores are surprisingly forgiving once you understand how they grow. The problem is that caring for an orchid exactly like an ordinary houseplant can quickly lead to trouble. Most familiar orchids do not want dense …
Jun 06 2024
A Back to Eden garden turns one of the simplest ideas in nature into a practical gardening method: keep the soil covered. Instead of repeatedly tilling bare ground, the method uses layers of organic matter—especially compost and wood chips—to protect the soil surface. Over time, those materials slowly break down, helping create a darker, looser …
Mar 13 2024
Spring flowers are some of the most welcome sights in the garden. After months of bare branches and quiet beds, early blooms bring color back to borders, containers, pathways, and foundation plantings. The best spring garden usually includes a mix of bulbs, perennials, and cool-season annuals so the color does not arrive all at once …
Feb 26 2024
Container gardening is one of the easiest ways to grow vegetables, herbs, flowers, and even small fruiting plants when you do not have much ground space. A few well-chosen pots can transform a balcony, patio, porch, deck, or small courtyard into a productive garden. Containers also give you more control over soil, drainage, placement, and …
Feb 11 2024
When the florists fell upon the rose – men who could never have enough – they strove for size and got it, a fine specimen of a florist’s rose being about as big as a moderate Savoy cabbage. They tried for strong scent and got it till a florist’s rose has not unseldom a suspicion …
Jan 29 2024
Ranunculus flowers look almost too elaborate to come from the strange little corms sold in garden centers. Their densely layered petals create blooms that resemble a cross between roses and peonies, with varieties available in creamy white, yellow, orange, blush, pink, coral, red, burgundy, and many beautiful bicolors. Before planting, however, ranunculus corms are not …
Oct 17 2023
Few flowering plants can compete with Brugmansia for sheer drama. Commonly known as angel’s trumpet, this tropical shrub or small tree produces enormous trumpet-shaped flowers that hang gracefully from its branches, sometimes reaching nearly a foot long. Depending on the variety, the blooms may be white, yellow, peach, pink, orange, or red, and many release …
