Gardening

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

Creamy yellow camellia with dense, ruffled petals and a golden center, surrounded by dark green leaves.

Flowers

9 Lookalike Alternatives for Difficult-to-Grow Roses

Roses are enchanting in the garden, but some of them can be difficult to care for. Fortunately, there are some great, lower-maintenance alternatives to those difficult varieties. Join gardening expert Melissa Strauss to talk about easy replacements for those fussy roses.

A cream-colored Patricia’s Pride Lilium with dark maroon centers and six broad petals. The petals curve slightly outward, revealing dark stamens with pollen-covered anthers. Glossy green leaves surround the flower.

Bulbs

7 Bulbs We’re Planting Now for Summer Blooms

Summer blooming bulbs offer gorgeous blossoms after many other plants finish flowering. They’re easy to care for, lying dormant from fall through winter. Seasoned grower Jerad Bryant shares these seven favorite bulbs; plant them in late winter for midsummer blooms!

A bushy Petroselinum crispum with vibrant green, serrated leaves growing in a yellow pot on a windowsill.

Herbs

How to Grow Parsley Indoors: 7 Pro Tips

Parsley is a hardy biennial that loves cold climates. Though it grows well outdoors during late winter and early spring, it’s also a lovely indoor plant for your kitchen herb garden! Seasoned grower Jerad Bryant shares these seven essential tips for growing it indoors.

Herbs

5 Indoor Herb-Growing Problems and Solutions

Growing herbs like parsley and oregano indoors allows you to enjoy bursts of homegrown flavor 365 days a year. However, just because these plants are indoors doesn’t mean they’re problem-free. Join farmer Briana Yablonski to learn common indoor herb garden problems and solutions.

Close-up of flowering plants with tall, branching stems, deeply veined narrow green leaves, and ruffled, rose-like double blooms in soft pink, red, and purple hues arranged along the stems.

Ornamental Gardens

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Garden Balsam

Garden balsam is an old landscaping treasure! It’s a heat-loving annual that thrives in the shade, offering gorgeously colored flowers for bees, hummingbirds, and gardeners’ enjoyment. Though largely cultivated in the 1900s, these annual flowers are making a comeback! Learn how to grow, care for, and plant them with this simple guide.

Wearing a jacket and colorful gloves, a gardener carefully prunes the branches of a dormant rose shrub with green pruning shears on a cold February day.

Trees

11 Trees and Shrubs You Should Prune in February

Break out those loppers and pruning shears. It's time to get back to work! Many shrubs and trees are ready for their annual trim around February while they are dormant. Here are 11 you might have in your yard that are perfect for pruning this month.

Close-up of blooming northeast native spring wildflowers featuring small, delicate flowers in shades of blue with rounded, lobed green leaves, growing on thin stems in a forest setting.

Flowers

17 Spring Ephemeral Wildflowers Native to the Northeast

Spring ephemerals emerge from the ground as the weather warms, bloom, and then disappear until the following year. Although their bloom time is short, their beauty is remarkable. Join wildflower enthusiast Briana Yablonski to learn 17 plants that brighten Northeast forests each spring.

Person holding a bundle of freshly cut Inch Plants, roses, and daisies wrapped in white paper.

Flowers

7 Tips to Make Your Valentine’s Flower Bouquets Last

Fresh flowers are a joy to receive on Valentine's Day, but they seem to stick around for such a short time. Cut flower gardener Melissa Strauss has some great tips for extending the life of that beautiful bouquet so that you can enjoy it for as long as possible.

Small tomato seedlings in black trays with vibrant green leaves on a sunlit indoor windowsill.

Vegetables

Can You Winter Sow Tomatoes?

Winter sowing works best with herbs, native wildflowers, and cold-loving crops, but you can do it with heat-loving plants like tomatoes! Just because you can doesn’t mean you should; so, is this the best method for sowing tomato seeds? Let’s find out.