Gardening

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

The tall thuja trees in the garden are covered with snow, some trees are damaged due to heavy snowfall.

Trees

Damage from Heavy Snowfall: 7 Tree-Saving Strategies

If you’ve heard the snap and crack during a winter weather event, you’ve experienced the dread of a fallen limb or, worse, an entire tree. Garden expert Katherine Rowe looks at the best care for trees after a heavy snowfall to prevent further damage.

Hands wearing yellow gloves holding a pot with a flowering bush, transferring it into freshly dug soil. The bush has pink blossoms with layered petals and dark green leaves.

Shrubs

Can You Plant Roses in January?

Underneath a rose’s outward beauty is a durable and hardy core, but certain conditions at planting set the best foundation for those gorgeous blooms. This includes minimizing winter extremes. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in when to plant roses in late winter, depending on your climate.

A bare-root fruit tree is being planted in a hole in the soil with a large trowel and a small bag of blue granular fertilizer in an autumn garden.

Fruits

When to Plant Bare-Root Fruit Trees in Your Zone

No matter where you live, planting bare-root trees is an easy way to add apples, peaches, or pears to your garden. However, planting these dormant trees at the correct time is crucial to their survival. Join farmer Briana Yablonski to learn when to plant bare-root fruit trees in your growing zone.

Multiple Phalaenopsis plants with long stems and large flowers in white, pink, red, and yellow. The flowers have rounded petals with delicate patterns. Green leaves surround the base of the plants.

Flowers

7 Orchid Winter Care Tips for Thriving Plants All Season

Many orchids are tropical plants that need special care during the cooler months. Depending on the species, you may need to switch things up if you want to see them flower. Orchid enthusiast Melissa Strauss offers some tips on caring for your tropical beauties during the cooler months.

Growing chile peppers from seed, a wooden windowsill holds trays with young seedlings in pressed soil pallets, while a man's hand places a sign with the seed name.

Vegetables

How to Grow Chile Peppers From Seed

One chile pepper seed can create dozens of chiles—the plants are prolific producers. They’re also easy to start from seeds! Learn how and when to start chile plants with longtime pepper grower Jerad Bryant. These nine simple steps guide you from start to finish.

Bright scarlet flowers with a satiny finish bloom on slender, upright stems with narrow green leaves, ideal for a sunny garden and perfect for beginner flower seeds.

Flowers

17 Best Beginner Flowers to Grow From Seed

Late winter is ideal for seed sourcing, with our sights on a florific warm season. With easy-to-sow and grow selections, the blooms abound without intensive seedling management or the need for extensive seed-starting supplies. Explore easy flowers to grow from seed with garden expert Katherine Rowe to kick off spring in bloom.

Pale apricot-hued blossom with layered petals and a sunny yellow center set against a background of green foliage, perfect for flower seeds 2025.

Flowers

21 Flower Seeds We’re Most Excited to Plant in 2025

It's time to start planning and planting your flowers for the coming year! If you need some inspiration, we would love to share some of our favorites for 2025. Read on to see what cut flower gardener Melissa Strauss is growing in her flower patch this year.

Close-up of a freshly picked bunch of radishes with bright pink, rounded roots held by a gardener above a raised bed, a great option fot sowing hardy vegetables.

Vegetables

11 Hardy Vegetables to Sow Indoors in January

It may seem like the middle of the winter, but many slow-growing crops benefit from a headstart indoors to prepare for spring. Join former organic farmer and garden expert Logan Hailey to explore 11 hardy vegetables to sow indoors this month.

Ripe seed capsules of the foxglove plant are elongated, dry, and split open, ready to reseed.

Ornamental Gardens

Will Foxgloves Reseed in the Garden?

Foxgloves are striking ornamentals with tall bloom spikes and bold vertical interest. They draw pollinators with their early bell blooms, graceful on strong stems. A durable nature belies their delicate appeal. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores how to manage the vigorous seed producers to balance perennialization.