Category - The Basics

10 Garden Resolutions for Every Gardener

With every New Year, most people look for a fresh start by making resolutions they might, or might...

Japanese tidying expert Marie Kondo has Americans searching their attics for joy.

It can be a joy to be a vineyard owner. It can be a joy to be responsible for maintaining a...

Like all good things, the fresh scent of flowers also fades away with time.

Irrigation is imperative when it comes to your garden.

Wow, I learned through experience. Lawns can be complicated.

With all the rain we have had over the past few years, there has been no shortage of dragon and...

In the southeastern United States, we have always dealt with short term droughts interspersed with...

Is it easier to believe in witches or killer fungus? Personally, I’m scared of killer fungus...

Your backyard and your home may seem like two separate domains, but they’re more intertwined than...

We usually only become aware of insects when we can see them. But what happens behind the scenes is...

I love to weed. The expression on peoples’ faces, whenever I say so, tells me that very few of...

When summer arrives, so do the Japanese beetles.

A long time ago I mentioned to a rather snobbish gardening friend that I was thinking of planting...

The notion that there’s a “language of flowers” is amusing.