Growing Tips & Resources

Most corporate gifts fail the same way: someone shopped for a company instead of a person. The lo...

The feeder you hang decides which birds show up. A tube feeder fills with chickadees and finches,...

The signal to bring plants inside is a number, and it arrives earlier than most of us expect. Onc...

A white elephant gift succeeds when the room fights over it. The steal count is the score, and th...

Lavender has a reputation for being difficult to start from seed, and we'll level with you: the r...

Rosemary has a reputation for being hard to keep alive indoors, and the reputation is earned. Gar...

A yard full of birds rarely happens by accident. The yards that stay busy with cardinals, chickad...

If you've ever hovered over a wilting pothos wondering whether it's hungry or whether feeding it ...

Home growing has moved well beyond a pandemic-era hobby. Americans are spending more on their gar...

Most houseplants do well with 8 to 16 hours of light per day, depending on the plant. Shade lover...

A plant is one of the most thoughtful gifts a teacher can unwrap. Unlike cut flowers, it's still ...

Every fall, the same question comes up: how much should you clean up before winter? For decades t...

The summer garden gets all the attention, but some of the best eating comes after Labor Day. Spin...

Most pruners do not run on a replacement schedule. They run on whether they still cut cleanly, an...

If pruning has started to ache, you are not imagining it. Repeated squeezing strains the same joi...

Fresh basil within arm’s reach of the stove, mint for your tea, parsley you snip instead of buy: ...

Most houseplant trouble traces back to a handful of things you can actually control: water, light...

There’s something uplifting about walking into your kitchen, pinching off a few leaves of fresh b...