Gardening

All about gardening - we have many in-depth guides about edibles, ornamentals, houseplants, and much more. We provide answers for your garden issues!

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Flowers

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Superbena®

Superbena® are trailing, mounding, and cascading hybrid plants. Their versatility and variety make them excellent candidates for large containers, borders, and tree wells. Give them the care they need, and they’ll fill your garden with endless blooms from spring through fall.

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Flowers

11 Most Fragrant Petunia Varieties to Grow This Season

While many gardeners choose petunias for their vibrant colors and prolific blooming, some varieties offer delightful fragrance too. Garden expert Madison Moulton reveals the 11 most fragrant petunia varieties that add both visual impact and sweet scent to your garden spaces.

A bundle flowers ready to prune daffodils after bloom, appearing to be soft and delicate with green stems

Flowers

When and How to Prune Daffodils After Blooming

Daffodils, in their trumpeted glory, usher in spring with a bright show. As the waves of gold, peach, and white fade to make way for warm-season blooms, it’s time to tuck them in for dormancy. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe reviews post-bloom cut-back for daffodils, where timing is the key in fostering next spring’s display.

A rose plant shows vigorous green shoots with small leaves growing from the base, indicating reversion to rootstock.

Shrubs

5 Signs Your Rose is Reverting to the Rootstock

Roses are resilient, productive flowering shrubs, ready to perform for years in the right growing environment. Beyond our control is the propensity of grafted roses to revert to their underlying rootstock. Gardening expert Katheine Rowe points to signs your rose is reverting, what to expect, and how to manage the internal horticultural conflict.

A shot of a potted purple flower besind smalled white flowers, showcasing petunia lookalikes

Flowers

9 Easy-to-Grow Petunia Look-Alikes To Try This Year

Love the look of petunias but want to try something different? These petunia look-alikes deliver similar visual impact with their own unique benefits. Garden expert Madison Moulton shares the best petunia alternatives that closely resemble these popular flowers but bring something new to your garden.

A close-up shot of a developing airy evergreen perennial variety called diamond frost euphorbia, showcasing its white flowers

Ornamental Gardens

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Diamond Frost® Euphorbia

Perfect as a houseplant, bedding material, or a potted specimen, Diamond Frost® Euphorbia is a lovely cultivar with graceful stems and dainty blossoms. Its small root system, drought tolerance, and hardiness make it a tough plant for the home garden. Learn to plant, grow, and care for this unique perennial alongside seasoned gardener Jerad Bryant.

An overhead shot of a developing herb on rich soil, growing alongside other plants, showcasing the spicy globe basil

Herbs

How to Plant, Grow, and Care For ‘Spicy Globe’ Basil

Basil's flavor and aroma are staples in kitchens worldwide. From Italy to India, recipes rely heavily on this tasty herb to brighten and sweeten sauces and soups. Gardening expert Melissa Strauss talks about how to grow and care for 'Spicy Globe,' a delightfully compact and flavorful variety!

In the garden, there are various types of potted bromeliad plants, with curved, strap-like leaves with a glossy surface of green and pinkish shades, forming in the centers of rosettes tanks filled with water, one of the tips for caring for an after-blooming plant.

Ornamental Gardens

7 Bromeliad After-Bloom Care Tips

Bromeliads are some of the showiest plants in the world! With a wide range of species, bromeliads come in all shapes and sizes. Each species has unique growing habits and flowering periods. Join seasoned grower Jerad Bryant to learn how to care for yours and ensure they continue thriving post-bloom.

A woman wearing red gloves holds a freshly picked bunch of colorful asparagus in a sunny garden, showing when and how to harvest asparagus.

Vegetables

How and When to Harvest Asparagus

Late spring is asparagus season, when fresh shoots emerge in bundles for two months or so. If you aren’t growing asparagus yet, get planting now to enjoy the slow-to-mature but long-producing perennial in future seasons. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores the best timing and how-tos when it comes to harvesting asparagus at peak readiness.

A shot of a composition of green stalks with silvery-white fluffy tops of the maiden grass

Ornamental Gardens

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Maiden Grass

Maiden grass is an old-time garden favorite for a variety of outdoor styles. It sprouts thin, dainty foliage from large, arching clumps. Red flowers appear in the fall, and seed heads emerge shortly after for winter interest. If you’re looking for a hardy grass, look no further than this unique variety!

A shot of a person in the process of cuting pink flowers, showcasing how to make cut peony blooms last

Flowers

How to Make Your Cut Peony Blooms Last: 7 Tips to Try

Peonies as cut flowers are among the most voluminous and unrivaled in the late spring display. With petal-packed blooms, a light fragrance, and a range of hues from the softest blush to scarlet, the beloved old garden perennials are a bouquet mainstay. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe to explore ways to make cut peonies last longer in the vase and make the most of a short but bloom-filled season.