How to Create a Cut Flower Garden
Get tips for planning and designing your own cutting garden and ideas for the best plants to include. By Anne Balogh Photo by: Jesse Oman / Shutterstock. If you love to fill your home with vases of freshly cut flowers but feel gardener’s remorse whenever …
How to Start a Flower Garden: 3 Steps for Beginners
Learn how to start a flower garden or make your existing flower beds burst with color and excitement By Linda Hagen; updated 9/3/20 Swipe to view slides This terraced flower garden features layers of vibrant color. A splash of bright orange poppies brightens …
Gardening for Wildlife: 10 Ideas for a Wildlife Garden
Turn your garden into a wildlife sanctuary with these eco-friendly tips By Doug Tallamy With natural areas diminishing, we must raise the bar of what we ask of our landscapes. We can no longer be satisfied with gorgeous gardens that are not also designed …
Textile in the Trees: Weaver Bird Nests
To weave a home, to woo the girl, to start a family in the trees: This is the life of a male weaver bird—champion textile designers and indefatigable courters. A Southern Masked Weaver (Ploceus velatus) beginning the entrance to a nest in Johannesburg, …
How to Care for Bird of Paradise Plants (Growing Guide)
Grow this exotic flowering tropical in your yard or home By Janet Loughrey , Garden Writer & Photographer Published 12/23/2022 Orange bird of paradise ( Strelizia reginae ). Photo by: ADD / Pixabay. Bird of paradise is a tropical perennial known for …
Bird Gardens: How to Create a Bird-Friendly Garden
Turn your yard and garden into a mecca for birds by filling it with the plants, shrubs, and trees that they love. By Anne Balogh Photo by: Jaclyn Vernace / Shutterstock. Birdwatching and gardening are hobbies that often (and should!) go hand-in-hand. …
21 Easy Flowers for Beginners
Discover some of the best easy-to-grow plants for your first flower garden By Linda Hagen; updated 11/20/20 Think you have a brown thumb? These easy-to-grow flowers will help you gain confidence in the garden. Easy annuals such as sunflowers and zinnias …
24 Best Cutting Garden Flowers
These vase-worthy flowering bulbs, annuals, and perennials will give you a bumper crop of blooms from spring all the way through fall. By Anne Balogh The saying “I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck” sums up how many people feel …
How to Create a Cut Flower Garden
Get tips for planning and designing your own cutting garden and ideas for the best plants to include. By Anne Balogh Photo by: Jesse Oman / Shutterstock. If you love to fill your home with vases of freshly cut flowers but feel gardener’s remorse whenever …
Garden Soil: How to Prepare Your Soil for a Garden
Flourishing gardens begin at the roots. Here are the ground rules for preparing your soil. By Anne Balogh Gardeners often disregard the impact soil has on the health and vigor of their plants. Soil preparation isn’t the most thrilling aspect of planting …