24 Lessons Learned in the Garden

24 gardeners share lessons they learned this past year in their gardens.

Recovering a Flooded Garden

Save your plants from garden floods with these cleanup tips and preventative measures.

Garden Soil 101

Flourishing gardens begin at the roots. Here are the ground rules for preparing your soil.

Organic Gardening

Use natural methods to grow plants in your garden.

How & Why to Grow a Native Plant Garden

Create a beautiful native landscape design that benefits wildlife and the environment.

Pruning Roses: 8 Simple Steps

Learn how to trim rose bushes - it’s not as difficult as you think!

8 Reasons Your Hydrangeas Won't Bloom

Get your underperforming hydrangeas to bloom better with these tips.

Changing Hydrangea Color

Learn how to change the color of your hydrangea flowers to blue, pink or purple.

Pests, Diseases, and Other Garden Problems

Learn how to safely and naturally deal with common garden pests, plant diseases, weeds and other problems.

Why Are My Tomato Leaves Turning Yellow?

Find out what causes yellow leaves on tomato plants and how to solve the problem.

Common Causes of Tomato Leaves Curling

Find out what causes curling leaves on tomato plants and how to solve the problem.

How to Keep Your Petunias Blooming

Discover four essentials for keeping your petunias flowering as long as possible.

How to Start a Vegetable Garden

Start growing your own food with these 6 basic steps.

How to Start a Flower Garden

Learn how to start a flower garden or make your existing flower beds burst with color and excitement.

Orchids Not Blooming?

How to get orchids to rebloom

When to Divide Perennials

The best time of year to divide peonies and other perennials

Raised Vegetable Beds

Tips for designing and building raised vegetable beds

Starting Seeds Under Fluorescent Lights

How to grow seeds under fluorescent light

Petunia Comeback

How to keep your petunias flowering

Vines For Arbors

The best vines for over a deck arbor

Container Gardening

Interesting flower ideas for container plantings

Neglected Grape Vines

Pruning and trellis-building tips for bringing neglected grape vines back to life

Container Flowers

Fertilizing tips for container flowers

Rose Woes

Dealing with black spot disease on tea roses

When a Tree is Too Close to Home

To remove a cedar tree or tear down a two-room house addition?

Squirrels Dining On Your Bulbs?

The best squirrel-proof perennials

Invasive Mulberry Tree

Is it time to replace your overgrown mulberry tree?

Pruning Climbing Roses

Pruning tips for climbing roses

Blue Fescue

How to care for blue fescue

Shady, Narrow Walkway

The best plants for around a shady walkway with narrow beds

Colonnade Apple Tree

Is a colonnade apple tree right for your garden?

Stinking Hellebores

Are stinking hellebore perennials worth the trouble?

Desert Hedges

The best hedges for desert climates

Winter Annuals

Planting annuals in mild winter climates

Getting Rid of Algae

How to get rid of algae in a water garden

Long Lasting Container Flowers

Tips for creating a long lasting, unusual and colorful container planting

Pruning Lavender

Get your lavender plants back into shape

Pruning a Crab Apple Tree

Is it okay to cut off the low branches of a crab apple tree?

Ornamental Grasses

The best ornamental grass and perennial combinations

Weedless Gravel Path

Keeping weeds away from a garden gravel path

Perennials from Seed

How to grow perennials from seed

Backdrop for Roses

The best plant companions for a bed of roses

Perennial Borders

Tips for designing and planting a large perennial border

Overgrown Yews

How to prune overgrown yews

Bishop's Weed

How to remove bishop's weed.

Bulb Remnants

What to do after bulbs have stopped blooming.

Gardening Advice: Low Creepers

The best low creepers for between stones in natural garden rock walks.

Gardening Advice: Post-Bulb Blahs

How to plant other flowers around bulbs without disturbing them

Gardening Advice: Quick Cover

The best climbing vines and roses for covering fences and trellises

Gardening Advice: Wisteria

How to grow wisteria and other vines up a wooden arbor

Gardening Advice: Barriers For Bamboo

Effective barriers for keeping bamboo inside your garden

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