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Ornamental Gardens

7 Landscaping Projects That are a Waste of Time

Why waste time landscaping when you could be gardening? It often costs more money than the value it adds to your home. You’ll have to hire an expensive professional or spend lots of time doing it yourself. These seven landscaping projects are a waste of time! Forget them, and consider alternatives instead.

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Shrubs

Time is Running Out to Prune Roses: What to do Right Now

In late summer, our roses may benefit from a little refresh. With final rounds of deadheading, our reblooming types put on a late-season show. Removing declining canes in all types improves overall health. Explore rose pruning to do now for vigorous roses heading into winter.

A person wearing yellow gloves holds pruning shears, trimming a leafy plant with a large cluster of cream and white flowers, a plant that should never be pruned in August.

Gardening Tips

11 Plants You Should Never Prune in August

The garden is fading as August arrives. Summer blooming plants are finishing their colorful show, and spring blooming plants are preparing for the coming winter. Never prune off forming flower buds! Avoid making cuts to these 11 plants during August to protect future blooms.

A woman sneezing in front of a ragweed plant with deeply lobed leaves and upright spikes of tiny green flowers, which should not be planted if prone to allergies.

Gardening Tips

Got Allergies? What NOT to Plant in Your Garden

Seasonal allergies can be a real bear with certain plants in the garden. It might surprise you to find out which plants are the biggest culprits of those allergy attacks. Gardening expert Melissa Strauss explains which types of plants you should avoid having in the garden if you're an allergy sufferer.

A neat, well-structured landscape in front of a large soft blue house with various evergreen shrubs, well-trimmed boxwoods, flowering perennials and bulbs, ornamental grasses and tall trees, showing one of the easy home landscape ideas.

Ornamental Gardens

9 Easy-to-Install New Home Landscapes that Look Great

From a harmonious foundation to a perennial border to an evergreen screen, easy landscape ideas evoke a seemingly effortless appeal that works across sites. While no landscape is free of maintenance or challenges, incorporating a few staple components creates the basis for a yard that works. Garden designer Katherine Rowe explores simple home landscape themes to inspire the next installation.

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Gardening Tips

13 Plants That Love Being Misted

Mists grace the tropical forests of the world. They give rise to epiphytes, mosses, and orchids that love growing in high humidity. In the home, misting emulates the humid forests of the tropics and coastal regions. Discover which plants love being misted alongside seasoned grower Jerad Bryant.

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Flowers

How and When to Cut Spent Dahlia Blooms After Flowering

Dahlias, unparalleled in their floral forms and extended display, bring high color and visual interest to the arrangement. With a simple cut after the dahlias flower, we can promote even more of the stunning flowers more quickly than if they stay on the stem. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe outlines how and when to cut dahlias after flowering (and when not to) for the biggest bloom show.

Gloved hands hold a large bundle of orange root vegetables and a smaller bunch of dark red ones, freshly harvested from edible shade plants with vibrant leafy green tops.

Edible

15 Edible Plants that Thrive in the Shade

Growing food can be a challenge if you are dealing with a lot of shade, but it's not impossible. You just have to choose the right plants! Join gardening expert Melissa Strauss for some tasty plants that will grow in partial and even full shade!