If you’re growing a cutting garden and not pinching your plants, you could be missing out on a lot of flower power! Cut flower gardener Melissa Strauss has some steps you can follow to maximize the number of blooms you can harvest this year.
Verbenas are purple-flowered plants with immense value in ornamental, pollinator, and herb gardens. Tall verbena is a hardy specimen that sometimes escapes cultivation. Learn how to cultivate it and manage its spread with seasoned grower Jerad Bryant.
If you have a shady spot in the garden, chances are it warrants a columbine (or many!). The native species and their cultivars, among others, brighten shaded zones with intricate blooms in bold and soft shades, including those prized, tranquil blues. The flowers are also a beacon for hummingbirds and other pollinators. Enjoy versatile columbines to add to your shade collection with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.
Hardy geraniums (those softly mounding perennials with cupped blooms) are durable and offer years of easy color. Award-winning geranium varieties bring the highest performance and ornament, all in an easygoing, adaptable package. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores prized geranium varieties to bring the biggest appeal to the landscape and to pollinators, too.
Calling all pollinator gardeners! The butterflies are back and looking for sweet nectar to fuel their fluttering. Pollinator gardener Melissa Strauss talks about some beautiful, low-maintenance annuals that will make those butterflies flock to your garden.
If you’re looking for a unique flower to grow this year, try growing pineapple lilies. These flowers produce tall greenish-white to pink bracts that actually resemble pineapples. In this article, plant expert Matt Dursum shows you how to plant, grow, and care for these magical flowers.
Bring the bustle of bumblebees to your garden with plants that provide a bounty of nectar and pollen. Beekeeper and pollinator enthusiast, Melissa Strauss knows what to plant to attract those fuzzy bees.
Spring is the perfect time to plant annuals like zinnias, cosmos, and celosia. Join flower farmer Briana Yablonski to learn some planting and care tips that will lead to healthy plants and vibrant blooms.
While many flowering plants grow well without support, others perform best when you stake them. Join flower farmer Briana Yablonski to learn which flowers you should stake before they bloom.
Summer is on its way, and it won't be long before the irises are blooming. If your plants seem a bit crowded this year, it's probably time to divide them. Gardening expert Melissa Strauss walks through the correct way to split up your irises.
For many gardeners, it’s time to bring prized dahlia bulbs out of winter storage to plant once the risk of frost has passed. To ready the tubers for early growth and flowering, you can pre-sprout them. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores how to pre-sprout dahlias for earlier blooms this summer.
If you want to add drama to your flower beds, nothing does it quite as opulently as the bearded iris. Join gardening expert Melissa Strauss to admire the ruffles and frills of some of our favorite showy varieties.