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...
Wave® Petunias When Wave® Petunias were introduced in 1995, they helped change the way gardeners grow petunias...
How to Grow Microgreens Three years ago I attended a workshop with Will Allen, the former NBA basketball player turned...
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...
Cool Greens for the Connoisseur Gardener People love tomatoes and corn, but personally I am happy when summer is over and I can grow my...
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...
The 2017 North Carolina Wildflower of the Year The hollow-stem Joe Pye weed (Eutrochium fistulosum), a perennial member of the sunflower family...
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...
Fill in Those Holes in the Garden We all have them: holes that exist in our perennial borders. I’m not talking about the holes...
Fragrant Flowers for Every Season Gardening is so many things but mainly it is a glorious employment of the senses. Sight, taste...
Growing Chrysanthemums Are you familiar with those huge, larger-than-life chrysanthemums your grandmother or grandfather...
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...
Rose Rosette Disease: Be Vigilant, It’s Here in NC To the dread of North Carolinian rose lovers, rose rosette disease (RRD) has arrived in our state...
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...