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A close-up captures the pink Nicotiana flowers amidst lush green leaves. The delicate petals gracefully unfold, catching the warm rays of sunlight as they bask in nature's embrace, showcasing their beauty and serenity.

Flowers

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Nicotiana

Nicotiana flowering tobacco is a beautiful flower to add to your garden or into container arrangements. The trumpet-shaped flowers come in many colors, and the smell is intoxicating. Certified master gardener Laura Elsner will walk you through how to grow nicotiana.

low-maintenance cottage garden. View of a large cottage garden with various plants. The garden has raised beds and vertical wooden trellises with climbing vines of roses and Clematis. The beds contain various flowering plants such as yarrow, lavender, roses, and various herbaceous plants such as rosemary, thyme, basil and others.

Gardening Tips

9 Tips for a Low-Maintenance Cottage Garden

If you want to plant a cottage garden but don’t think you have time to maintain one, we have some tips that will help get you on the right track. Gardening expert Melissa Strauss can help you get started on a low-maintenance cottage garden!

Close-up of a gardener's hand holding a blue spade with white granular fertilizer near a flowering Asclepias syriaca plant in a sunny garden. It features tall, upright stems with broad, lance-shaped leaves that are arranged in opposite pairs along the stem. Common milkweed produces clusters of small, fragrant pink to purplish flowers atop the stems.

Fertilizer

Do I Need to Fertilize Native Plants?

Whether you’re starting a new garden or enjoying a well-established landscape, you know that plants require some regular maintenance. If you’re a fan of native plants, you may have wondered if you need to fertilize them on a regular basis like some of your other garden plants. In this article, gardening expert Liessa Bowen will help guide you through some tips for caring for your native plants.

View of woodland plants in the garden. Flowering Erythronium plant on a blurred background. Erythronium features slender, arching stems adorned with one or two nodding, bell-shaped flowers of bright yellow color. The plant produces glossy, mottled leaves that are heart-shaped or lanceolate, adding to its ornamental appeal.

Ornamental Gardens

27 Gorgeous Plants For Your Woodland Garden

Are you looking for some beautiful plants to fill in your woodland garden? Woodland gardens can be peaceful and natural wonderlands, bursting with life, but you need to know which plants will grow best in the shade of trees. In this article, gardening expert Liessa Bowen shares 27 of her favorite easy-to-grow woodland plants.

View of a food forest with various plants in a sunny garden. In the garden, various edible crops are grown in layers from trees to ground cover plants. There are fruit trees, tall sunflowers, raspberry bushes, climbing cucumber plants, tomato plants, zucchini, various herbs and ground cover plants including strawberries.

Edible

How To Grow A Food Forest

Food forests are sustainable, edible ecosystems designed to match the diversity and balance of a natural forest. Gardening expert Madison Moulton explains the benefits of food forests and how you can create your own in five steps.

A cluster of pink stonecrop flowers, delicately held aloft by deep purple stems. In the blurred background, additional blooms of these charming flowers create a picturesque scene, adding to the allure of the composition.

Ground Cover

13 Best Stonecrop Varieties for Your Rock Garden

If you’re looking for plants that thrive in rock gardens and coarse, nutrient-poor soil, check out stonecrop! These plants have thick, succulent-like leaves that allow them to thrive in environments where many other plants perish. Gardening expert Briana Yablonski shares 13 stonecrop varieties to consider planting.

Numerous dahlias and lush green foliage illuminated by the sun's warm glow. The dahlias boast soft pink petals arranged in multiple layers, creating a delicate and inviting display of natural beauty.

Flowers

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Dinnerplate Dahlias

Once you start growing dahlias, you might not be able to stop. Their long bloom season and spectacular flowers make the extra care they require worthwhile. Look to dinnerplate dahlias for high impact in the garden, with huge flowers measuring up to 14 inches! Explore how to grow dahlias the size of literal dinner plates with garden expert Katherine Rowe.

spring rose care. Close-up of women's hands applying compost fertilizer to a rose bush in the spring garden. The rose bush consists of strong, upright, trimmed green stems covered with small sharp thorns and several young deciduous shoots of a reddish hue.

Gardening Inspiration

5 Spring Rose Care Tips

Spring is a crucial season for rose care. Now is the time to complete tasks like pruning, feeding, and tidying to set the stage for a productive season. Gardening expert Madison Moulton lists five spring rose care tips to tackle now.

Spring fertilizing. Close-up of a gardener's hand in a black glove applying fertilizer to young lettuce in the spring garden. He applies fertilizer with a blue garden trowel. The salad has a rosette of oval, oblong, wide green leaves.

Fertilizer

11 Tips for Fertilizing Your Garden this Spring

As your garden awakens from a cold, dormant winter, now is the time to nourish your plants for a flourishing season ahead. Former organic farmer and garden expert Logan Hailey explains 11 essential tips for optimizing spring fertilization.