Gardening

All about gardening - we have many in-depth guides about edibles, ornamentals, houseplants, and much more. We provide answers for your garden issues!

Delicate pink and white star-shaped blossoms surrounded by variegated green and yellow leaves in a four-season garden.

Ornamental Gardens

Creating a Four-Season Garden: 13 Plants for Year-Round Interest

A four-season garden brims with visual interest and ecological benefits year-round. A diversity of species brings attributes of varying fruits, flowers, and foliage throughout the year. Some selections play the role of all-season performers. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe highlights plants that bring unique qualities in all seasons for reliable garden appeal.

Polygonatum plant with arching stems, broad green leaves, and dangling white flowers, resembling hosta lookalikes in the garden.

Ornamental Gardens

11 Hosta Lookalikes For Different Garden Conditions

Hostas enchant with bold foliage and mannerly habits punctuated with summer bloom spikes. Widely accommodating across garden styles, they fill in partially shaded borders and beds with classic appeal. To mirror their merits in garden areas outside their preferences or to complement the composition, hosta lookalikes bring their own perennial appeal.

A close-up shot of a small composition of red flowers, green foliage, and thorny stems, all covered in snow, showcasing how to prepare rose for dormancy

Shrubs

9 Ways To Prepare Rose Bushes for Winter Dormancy Now

As our roses slow their active growth heading into the cool season, a little prep now helps them glide into winter dormancy as healthy, stress-free shrubs. Resilient specimens store energy to survive their winter rest and emerge for strong growth and flowering. Explore end-of-season care and treatment of roses now for a sturdy foundation over the winter.

A close-up and overhead shot of a blooming red-orange colored flowers of a succulent known as peanut cactus

Cacti & Succulents

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Peanut Cactus

Resembling small peanuts nestled in the ground, the peanut cactus stuns onlookers with its cylindrical stems and tiny spines. Bright flowers adorn the stems in the summer, making this plant superb for rock gardens and containers. Learn how to plant, grow, and care for the peanut cactus alongside seasoned grower Jerad Bryant.

Fall kitchen raised garden bed filled with rows of leafy lettuce, beets, carrots, arugula, onions, radishes, and parsley.

Edible

How to Start a Fall Kitchen Garden

A kitchen garden is a fun and rewarding way to grow your own fresh food within arm's reach of the kitchen. Join gardening expert Melissa Strauss to talk about starting a fall kitchen garden. You'll love the holidays even more, serving up the fruits of your labor.

Close-up of a young red kohlrabi plant growing in a greenhouse among September greenhouse crops.

Edible

13 September Greenhouse Crops: Beyond Leafy Greens

September is a good time to start your cool-weather greenhouse crops. Growing in the greenhouse means plenty of delicious vegetables throughout the winter months. Here are some crops you can start this month that go beyond the leafy greens that we know grow well in the winter.