How-To

How-To
We teach you how to grow and care for your dream garden, and how to decorate with plants.
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Anna Laurent gives step-by-step instructions for how to turn found wood into a magnificent floor lamp that's easy, inexpensive, and super stylish.
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Our basic guide to growing moss, with photos of four of our favorite varieties.
Related Topics: How-To | Green | Plan your garden
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Did you know that you can cultivate moss with a blender and some yogurt or beer? Here's our tips for how to make a milkshake of moss "paint" to plant in your garden.
Related Topics: How-To | Green | Recipes
Our flower columnist, Marigold and Mint, shows us how to make flower crowns out of lily-of-the-valley and lillies. Perfect for Easter or a spring wedding!
Using a few simple and inexpensive materials, including a peat pot and some moss, our new contributor Laurie Cinotto shows us how to DIY these sweet Easter baskets, perfect for displaying eggs, candy, a succulent, or a few cut flowers.
Related Topics: How-To | Brown | crafts | decorating | DIY | Easter | Entertaining | tablescape
How to make your own Easter tree, with hanging eggs from spring branches. Plus: Our tip for how to invisibly attach the hanging thread or ribbon to each egg.
Related Topics: DIY projects | Blue | Pink | crafts | Decor | DIY | Easter | How-To | Spring
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Using herbs and plants as stencils, you can dye Easter eggs with beautiful botanical patterns. Here's our step-by-step guide.
Related Topics: How-To | Blue | Orange | crafts | DIY | Easter | herbs
Our columnist Kevin Lee Jacobs shows us how to build a raised bed garden and explains why it's easy to grow vegetables, flowers, and herbs in these convenient elevated beds.

 

How to make arrangements using herbs and spring flowers that are perfect for the Passover or Easter table.
They may not need soil or pots, so how do you display air plants? We suggest three ways to display tillandsias in your home including an unexpected material: Velcro.
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