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Perennial Profiles: Daylilies
Gardeners can’t get enough of daylilies, and it’s easy to understand why. Other flowers may be as beautiful, but no other plants are as rugged, widely adapted, or versatile. Daylilies are gorgeous, and they are survivors?perfect plants for both the connoisseur and the weekend warrior.
Perennial Profiles: Hostas
There is no better way to brighten up a shady spot than by planting hostas.
Planning and Building an Outdoor Deck
Before building a new deck, consider is size, placement, and how it will affect your house—and your neighbors—before you begin.
Planting a Bare-Root Rose
Get your roses off to the best possible start by choosing their growing site carefully and then planting them using the techniques most suitable for your climate. Bare-root rose plants — those sold without soil — offer the best value and grow quickly after planting.
Planting Bulbs
A few frequently asked questions anwered.
Pruning Grafted Trees and Shrubs
Many of our most best flowering and fruiting trees and shrubs are grafted.
Pruning Shrubs in Early Spring
Certain deciduous shrubs can be pruned in very early spring.
Pruning Trees in Early Spring
Though there yet may be snow in some places, in early spring shrubs and trees can sense the approaching weather change. Buds begin to swell as the days warm. Warm temperatures and longer days tell their hormones to initiate that burst of foliage we call Spring.
Remembering the Gardens of Childhood
The gardens of one’s childhood are fleeting images of sunny times with loving parents or grandparents or neighbors. Memories return of mothers picking, arranging or enjoying the beauty of flowers. These memories are often closely intertwined with our current love of gardening.
Salt-Resistant Plants
Salt tolerance is different in each species, and even often among plants of the same species.
Securing Wood Floors: Three Solutions
Wood floors can be installed using concealed nails, plugged screws, or face nails. Whatever the method, it’s important to secure the floor properly and close all the gaps for a wood floor that’s as beautiful as it is longlasting.
How to Force Buds to Open
Make spring come early by forcing branches on flowering trees.
How to Make a Christmas Wreath
Circular wreaths can be made easily from overgrown vines.
Gardening With Kids: Theme Gardens
Planning a garden around a theme, such as a fairyland or outer space, allows kids to create a growing space that means something special to them.
Gardening with Perennials: Choosing Plants
A few ideas to keep in mind when you’re planning your gardens and choosing plants.
Gardening with Perennials: Designing with Color
The great thing about flowers is that you really can’t go wrong with them. Even if a perennial bed doesn’t turn out exactly like what you envisioned, chances are it’s going to be attractive.
Gardening with Perennials: Gardens with Style
Choosing a garden style is a little like getting dressed.
Gardening with Perennials: Getting Started
Whether you’re a new gardener planning your first perennial bed, or an experienced gardener hoping to improve your existing plantings, we can help make your garden a success.
Gardening with Perennials: Ornamental Grasses
Long relegated exclusively to lawns, grasses are now becoming the darlings of the perennial garden.
Growing Peas
To plant or not to plant…the peas? When is the question.
Houseplant Blights
When houseplants get sick and it’s not insects, we may say they have blights.
Houseplant Bug Problems
Bugs have few natural indoor predators. It’s here that their populations explode and cause real harm to our houseplants.
How Gardens Grow
One of the joys of summer is making time to read technical journals and publications that pile up on the floor that have been saved for these less hectic, lazy days to get new understandings of how gardens grow.
In Pursuit of the Perfect Lawn
A perfect lawn depends on constant care…regular mowing, fertilizer, water, monitoring, maybe chemicals and lots of tough love.
Insulating Old Homes: Blow-In Insulation Options
You can’t cram the pink stuff into a closed wall. However, blown- or sprayed-in insulation can make a leaky old home an energy miser. Fiberglass, cellulose, and foam can all keep the cold at bay.
Invite Birds to Your Garden
Ideally, bird plantings should be a blend of trees, shrubs, vines and flowers that provide food over a long period.
Japanese Beetle Grubs
Lawn insects are a problem, none more so than Japanese Beetles.
Laminate Floor Basics
Is it real or is it laminate? While it mimics the look of wood, laminate floors resist dents, scuffs, and stains that can mar hardwood surfaces. A durable, easy to install, and relatively inexpensive flooring material, laminates can be used in any room in the home.
Maintaining Common Flowers
Simple tips to keep some common favorites beautiful and healthy.
How to Make a Christmas Garland
By using what is in the garden, one can make fine Christmas decorations.
