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Not blooming tulips in a sunny garden have upright strong stems, large, wide, blue-green, smooth leaves and dense oval, goblet-shaped green buds with a pinkish blush.

Flowers

7 Reasons Your Tulips Are Not Blooming

It can be frustrating to put time and effort into the garden and then have disappointing results. When tulips fail to bloom, there are several factors to explore. Join gardening expert Melissa Strauss to uncover some common reasons why your spring beauties aren't living up to their potential.

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Gardening Tips

Does Cleaning Up the Garden Too Early Harm Pollinators?

Don’t harm the pollinators! Though you may feel a strong urge to clear the yard, consider cleaning it gradually throughout the seasons. Nesting pollinators and predatory insects hide underground, in stems, and under leaves. Native plant gardener Jerad Bryant explores whether cleaning up the garden harms pollinators.

A gardener in yellow gloves with a green hoe is doing one of the April garden tasks - removing weeds from a flower bed.

Gardening Tips

13 Garden Tasks to Tackle in April

The days lengthen and warm this month, inviting gardeners back outside to tend to the yard! Perennials wake up, the soil warms, and insects appear. Seasoned grower Jerad Bryant shares 13 April garden tasks that create a healthy, beautiful, and bountiful space for the rest of the growing season.

Close up of vibrant red reblooming tulips with bright yellow contrasting edges on the petals, rising on strong tall stems with large, smooth green foliage growing from the base.

Flowers

11 Pro Tips for Getting Your Tulips to Rebloom

Tulips epitomize spring splendor. Though they're often grown as annuals, you can get your tulips to rebloom with a few essential care techniques improve success. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores options for getting tulips to bloom again and how to care for the bulbs post-flowering.

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Vegetables

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Romanesco Broccoli

Have you seen a vegetable that demonstrates fractal geometry at its finest? Romanesco broccoli is not only cool to look at, it’s easy to grow and delicious. In this article, plant expert Matt Dursum shows you how to plant, grow, and care for this unique Brassica.

Vegetable rabbits won't eat. A close-up of a wild rabbit with fluffy, tan-grey fur, large black eyes and long ears hides among young vegetable crops in a garden bed.

Vegetables

13 Vegetable Garden Plants Rabbits Won’t Eat

With spring’s sweetness comes fresh, tender, new growth and the bunnies that make quick work of it. If you have rabbits in your vegetable garden, we’ve got ideas for plants they won’t devour (at least, that they don’t prefer). With a palette as expansive as ours, honing in on their least favorites means more for us. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores vegetable garden plants that rabbits avoid and how to use them as deterrents.

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Edible

7 Crops You Can Plant From Seed in April

When spring finally spoils us with sunshine and warmth, it’s a pleasure to get in the garden and sow some seeds. Join former organic farmer Logan Hailey for some delicious additions to plant from seed in your April garden.

Trees shrubs April. Silky, pinkish pom-pom flowers bloom profusely along arching branches, surrounded by delicate, fern-like leaves with fine, elongated leaflets.

Trees

11 Trees and Shrubs to Plant in April

April showers bring May flowers! Use the rain to your advantage and plant flowering trees and shrubs this month. They’ll soak up the moisture and grow well for the rest of the season. Native plant gardener Jerad Bryant shares 11 trees and shrubs perfect for planting in April.