Coleus – Time to Take Another Look While you may have been busy collecting conifers or Japanese maples, plant breeders have also been...
7 Annuals & Tender Perennials That Will Change Your Garden First of all, what the heck is a DWU? I just made that up. It’s from the common reference book...
Jump Start Spring with Early Annuals There are plenty of cool weather annuals besides pansies that are perfect for planting in early...
Magnificent Moonflower Vines If you want to add beautiful drama to your landscape this summer, buy a small pack of moonflower...
Foodscaping Simplified: Just plant an edge! Who doesn’t want to enjoy a freshly harvested, “garden to table” meal? It is truly one of...
Malabar Spinach: Easy, Edible and Elegant As a young Peace Corps volunteer in Africa, I ate many cooked leaves (and other things) that I had...
How to Grow Microgreens Three years ago I attended a workshop with Will Allen, the former NBA basketball player turned...
Yes, You Can Grow Tomatoes In Winter! Hydroponics is a hot trend in the gardening world these days. Growing hydroponically brings the...
7 Easy-to-Grow Plants for Indoor Beauty Adding plants to indoor spaces adds beauty to our surroundings, helps remove toxins from the air...
Picking the Perfect Poinsettia It’s that time of year when poinsettias show up in garden centers, grocery stores, and just about...
Christmas Cactus Care 101 The Christmas cactus is a very pretty ornamental, but it can also be a confusing plant. Many...
Easy-Care Poinsettias Everybody loves to add festive color and blooming beauty to their home with colorful poinsettias...
Grow: Butterfly Weed This North American native plant is a butterfly magnet with flowers that are a nectar source for...
Spring Blooming Plants for the New American Garden The style is hardly new. The New American Garden has been around since the 1960s, when Wolfgang...
Native Azaleas Gardeners can be prone to obsessions. I knew my husband was entranced, if not obsessed, when he...
Self-Sowing Flowers Expand Your Garden Display Like most homeowners, I’m constantly seeking new ways to reduce the time and money I spend...
Winter White Flowers for the Garden Winter and white flowered plants go well together. Even in the snow these plants will dazzle and...
Growing Goldenrod – Fall’s Golden Wands According to Aesop’s Fables, “a man is known by the company he keeps.” While there may be...
Growing Chrysanthemums Are you familiar with those huge, larger-than-life chrysanthemums your grandmother or grandfather...
Flowers for the Dog Days of Summer In late July through August, my garden runs on its own like a family of ten kids. I’ll give the...
7 Roses for Your Garden Some are new, others are tried and true, and a few have won awards, but in all cases these roses...
Are You Growing Own-Root Roses? Recently a reader commented that while she enjoyed my articles, she didn’t always agree with me:...
Tackle Your Fear of Growing Roses If you’ve never grown a rose simply for fear that you’ll kill it in no time, think again!
How Do You Know Which Rose to Grow? We were intrigued when we heard about the world of rose judging and wondered how this could apply...
Orchid Growing Tips from An Expert Triangle Gardener caught up with Graham Wood, of Lehua Orchids in Hawaii, for some orchid growing...
Growing Air Plants Air plants (Tillandsia) are fun and interesting plants—perfect for enjoying indoors any time of...
Succulents, Southern Style We are somewhat spoiled in the South with colorful, bodacious plants to create lush landscapes, but...
Hardy Palms Create Tropical Feel When people think of palm trees, they envision tropical beaches. So you might be surprised to learn...