Plants for Heavy Clay and Damp Areas Need plants for murky soils that drain poorly? With our clay soils, the answer is probably...
Hydrangea Pruning Tips It can be confusing on how and when to prune hydrangeas. Here’s a cheat sheet to help guide you.
Seed Buying 101 Seed buying is one of coziest chores of winter—sitting by the fire, flipping through seed...
Add Soil Organic Matter to the Garden Before you go to the garden center, you should stop and think about your soil. The most important...
Preparing Your Landscape for Winter While we can’t stop winter and snow, there are a few things you can do to minimize its impact on...
To Garden is to Reassess—Continually In every gardening year there comes a need to reassess the garden. Usually this desire hits me...
Every Plant Has a Story People have collected information and stories about plants for generations, learning just which...
10 Golden Rules for Gardening Successful gardening depends on how you plant and how you manage problems in the garden. Here are...
The Great Garden Rip Out It never ceases to amaze me that after I go on a wild planting spree in the spring, I seem to go on...
Where Do Plants Come From? Georgina Werner wants her husband to make her a tree. Not just any tree. She has a beautiful Texas...
Of Stinky Plants and Resolutions In the fall of 2016, one of North Carolina State’s greenhouses experienced a baby panda moment...
A Garden Journal Keeps Track of What Grows When I have never had the desire to keep a gardening journal. However, my attitude towards journaling...
How to Use Garden Chemicals Some gardeners are unafraid of reaching for chemicals and some will do so only as a last resort...
Shop the Garden Pot I want to go shopping. The garden centers are filled with plants. Making the right choices when...
Selecting Soil Amendments In most areas, the native soil may be low in nutrients and have poor texture as well. To improve...