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Small gardens, porches, and patios are perfect for container gardening! Containers allow for easy transporting, cultivating, and harvesting. Seasoned grower Jerad Bryant shares nine easy ways to encourage healthy and robust growth from your potted plants.
When hot summer days arrive, biting into a homegrown melon is one of the best treats. Join farmer Briana Yablonski to learn how to grow honeydews from seed to harvest.
Hardy geraniums (those softly mounding perennials with cupped blooms) are durable and offer years of easy color. Award-winning geranium varieties bring the highest performance and ornament, all in an easygoing, adaptable package. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores prized geranium varieties to bring the biggest appeal to the landscape and to pollinators, too.
'Thai Constellation' is a houseplant lover's dream. Easy to care for and visually stunning, it doesn't get much better. Join houseplant enthusiast Melissa Strauss to talk about caring for your beautiful monstera.
For Earth Day this year, let’s celebrate the Earth by nurturing biodiverse ecosystems and nourishing the living things that inhabit our green spaces. Join beekeeper and pollinator enthusiast Melissa Strauss for some ways to make your garden a more inviting place for all its inhabitants!
Pesticides get a bad rap! Though they can be harmful, they have viable uses in commercial agriculture. Proper use, dosage rates, and application methods are key to preventing detrimental side effects. When improperly applied or overused, many pesticides make pest problems worse. This article explains why.
Calling all pollinator gardeners! The butterflies are back and looking for sweet nectar to fuel their fluttering. Pollinator gardener Melissa Strauss talks about some beautiful, low-maintenance annuals that will make those butterflies flock to your garden.
Hoya ‘Krimson Princess’ is a popular houseplant for beginners and collectors alike. The vining tropical has dynamic foliage, fragrant blooms, and a long-lived, easy-care nature. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores the sweet attributes of the famed ‘Krimson Princess.’
If you’re looking for a unique flower to grow this year, try growing pineapple lilies. These flowers produce tall greenish-white to pink bracts that actually resemble pineapples. In this article, plant expert Matt Dursum shows you how to plant, grow, and care for these magical flowers.
Songbirds, raptors, and hummingbirds need different resources to survive. By catering to all types of birds, you’ll invite a higher diversity of them to your garden. Use these nine simple techniques from native plant gardener Jerad Bryant to lure birds into your yard.
Even if we’re short on space, we don’t have to be short on fresh vegetables. By getting creative with growing in small spaces and selecting highly productive crops with compact forms, we can harvest all season. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores top-performing vegetables for a big yield, no matter the scale.
With pollinator populations declining rapidly, it's more important than ever to create habitats where these creatures can thrive and reproduce. Join beekeeper and gardener Melissa Strauss to learn about some excellent plants that can help support pollinators in the Southeast.