8 Common Gardening Injuries and How to Avoid Them
Gardening injuries can be painful – even deadly. Here are 8 common gardening injuries and how to avoid them.
Welcoming Houseplant Starter Kit: Cheap 6-Step Project
Keeping a flourishing collection of houseplants will require some attention and patience. Those of us who have managed to keep our houseplants alive and healthy have found a few items indispensable, though. Here’s a guide to assembling a good starter kit for houseplants.
Beautiful Love-in-a-Mist Flowers: Grow Them in 9 Steps
Love-in-a-mist is a charming, old-fashioned flower that blooms white, pink, purple, and – quite famously – blue in spring and early summer. Here’s how to grow them.
14 Plants to Bring Luck & Fortune to Your Home
Certain plants have always been associated with good fortune. Here are a few that just might bring your home some luck this year.
Budget-Friendly Ways to Make the Most of Your Outdoor Space
If you have a garden, now’s the moment to rethink your outdoor space with the same decorative attention you give your living room.
Garden Chill: Simple Steps to Combat Heat Stress in 5 Ways
Blistering temperatures above typical summer averages drive us indoors – into the comfort of our homes. But what about the plants in our gardens?
Grow Your Own Lavender
The ancient Greeks used lavender to fight insomnia and back aches. Mary is said to have washed the feet of Jesus with lavender ointment. Here’s how to grow lavender in your backyard.
7 Flowers to Plant this Summer
The flowers of late summer and autumn are particularly gorgeous. Here are seven flowers to plant in your summer garden.
Grow Your Own Morning Glory Flowers
In nature’s magnificent show, the morning glory undergoes costume changes like no other floral diva. With normal fluctuations in pH levels, its petals will shift color from blue to pink, and sometimes red in the course of a single day. Morning glories are annual climbers with slender, curling stems, lush, green, heart-shaped leaves, and trumpet […]
Grow Your Own Asters
With more than 600 species in the Aster genus, you have a galaxy from which to choose the precise variety for your garden. Here’s how you grow these lovely flowers from seed.