There are worthwhile reasons to grow your own foods in a raised bed garden No matter how often we resolve to eat healthfully, it can be a challenge. From waking […]
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Grow your own salsa garden
Salsas come in many varieties. but whatever the ingredients, they add flavor and color to a host of dishes. They can be vegetable- or fruit-based, hot or cold, spicy or mild. […]
Ready, set, grow: 8 tips for timing seed starting
What is it about starting seeds that gives us such pleasure? When you’re itching to get your hands in the soil, but the garden is buried under snow, starting seeds […]
Create your own nostalgia-rich garden with modern plants
What evokes your favorite memories in the garden? Is it the scent of marigolds, taking you back to the first time you planted flowers with your mom? Is it the delicious […]
Orchids are a beautiful and mysterious species
Characterized by their bilateral symmetric flowers and upward-facing blooms, orchids are a beautiful and mysterious species. Orchidaceae, the Orchid family, is a diverse group of flowering plants belonging to the Liliopsida […]
Amaryllis is the perfect holiday and wintertime bulb!
The amaryllis you decorate your home with during the winter holidays is a Hippeastrum. A member of the genus Amaryllidaceae, Hippeastrum bulbs are native to Central and South America and include 90 […]
10 tips for pollinator plantings
Charlotte Ekker Wiggins, the author of A Beekeeper’s Diary Self-Guide to Keeping Bees, offers the following suggestions on how to encourage and support pollinators in your garden: The colorful posters with […]
5 Easy Steps on When and How to Bring Your Houseplants Inside.
They look so good! If you’ve been using your houseplants outside this season, by the end of the summer, many of those indoor/outdoor plants are looking their very best, having […]
10 new plants to create a multi-season hummingbird haven
Is there anything more entertaining than watching the aerobatic antics of hummingbirds? Whether they’re visiting for a sip of sugar water at the feeder, zooming through the garden (where you’ll often […]
Nobody ever has to be a retired gardener
Gardening is an activity that most of us do because we want to. We do it because it’s pleasurable, healthy, puts fresh produce on the table, beautifies our environment, and the […]