Coleus – Time to Take Another Look While you may have been busy collecting conifers or Japanese maples, plant breeders have also been...
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...
Geraniums If you’ve never grown geraniums, this is the year to do it. The National Garden Bureau has...
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...
The Basics of Potted Citrus If your plans don’t include a trip to the Caribbean, you can still enjoy a sense of the tropics...
Eating My Houseplants I’m eating my houseplants. Or rather I should say I’m growing plants indoors that I can eat...
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...
Self-Sowing Flowers Expand Your Garden Display Like most homeowners, I’m constantly seeking new ways to reduce the time and money I spend...
Native Groundcovers During several years when I worked for a nursery as a plant seller, the question I heard most often...
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...
Winter White Flowers for the Garden Winter and white flowered plants go well together. Even in the snow these plants will dazzle and...
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...
Growing Hybrid Tea Roses As someone who fell hard for sustainable roses, I have avoided hybrid tea roses like the plague. I...
Historic Roses at the Ben Lomond House, Manassas, VA Most gardeners think of their little plot of earth as hallowed ground, but the volunteers at the...
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...