Our container garden specimens are often too valuable to sacrifice to winter extremes. To get creative on preserving your favorites, employ crafty measures of insulated overwintering. Streamlined techniques using household and natural materials offer winter protection and may even promote an earlier spring reemergence. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores ways to enhance insulation for overwintering success.
If you're a warm climate gardener in Zones 8 and higher, you can plant sweet peas in the fall for gorgeous blooms in winter and spring. North Florida gardener Melissa Strauss shares her method for growing swoon-worthy sweet peas in autumn.
Learn why you may want to try leaving your dahlias in the ground for the winter and how to increase the odds they'll come back next season! Wendy Moulton will take you through the steps to ensure successful flowers in spring and summer.
There is an art to storing dahlia tubers that keeps them healthy and ready to spring back into action when the weather warms up. Join gardening expert Melissa Strauss to uncover some mistakes you can avoid to keep your bulbs fresh and maintain their dormancy until spring.
Feeling fed up with battling invasive plants year after year? Gardening enthusiast and biologist Lindsay Miller shares the scoop on the top 11 invasive plants you need to deal with this fall to keep your garden healthy and flourishing next season.
Decorate ponds, naturalistic landscapes, and native pollinator gardens with the queen of the prairie! A meadowsweet relative, this perennial blooms bright pink flower clusters atop tall stems. It’s perfect for boosting biodiversity throughout North America. Learn how to grow and care for it alongside native plant gardener Jerad Bryant.
Are you looking for a showy plant that produces edible fruits, attracts pollinators, and helps feed birds? Look no further than the highbush cranberry. This cool-weather-loving shrub is perfect for northern gardens. Learn all about the highbush cranberry and how to grow it in your landscape.
Pears are a bit unusual, because they fall into two major categories and aren’t always harvested when ripe. While Asian varieties are left to fully mature on the tree, gardeners pick European varieties early and keep them in cold storage. So exactly how and when do you harvest for the juiciest, most flavorful fruit? Plant biologist Emily Estep will explain everything you need to know.
Tiny, red cranberries are delicious! They make sweet but tart jams, jellies, and juices. Learn how to grow them yourself so you’ll never have to buy them again. Join native plant gardener Jerad Bryant to bring cranberries into your home garden this season.
Although pomegranates are tasty and beautiful, they’re not grown as often as apples or pears. Therefore, it’s common for gardeners to make a few mistakes when they’re growing these unique fruit trees. Join Briana Yablonski to learn some common missteps to avoid.
Parsnips are a cool-season, easy-to-grow root vegetable with a sweet, nutty flavor. The perfect complement to autumnal and winter dishes, harvesting at peak readiness ensures the best taste and texture. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in identifying signs your parsnips are ready to harvest.
Since you can plant perennials once and enjoy them for years, choosing the proper planting date is key! The cool weather and spring and fall provide ideal conditions, but is one better than the other? Join farmer Briana Yablonski to learn the best season for planting perennials.