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A ladybug with red wings rests on a green leaf, basking in the warm glow of sunlight, its delicate spots and tiny legs visible up close against the leaf's surface.

Garden Pests

Should You Buy Ladybugs as Natural Pest Control?

Ladybugs are voracious predators of garden pests, but purchasing these beneficial insects may not be the best form of pest control. Garden expert and former organic farmer Logan Hailey explains how ladybugs can help control pests and why you don’t need to buy them.

kitchen garden plants. View of a garden with wooden raised beds containing a variety of herbs, vegetables and fruit plants.

Edible

27 Plants for Your Raised Bed Kitchen Garden

If you’re planning a kitchen garden, raised beds complement this type of garden wonderfully. They are accessible and attractive and make growing your favorite kitchen staples a breeze. Gardening expert Melissa Strauss shares 27 plants that work great in your raised bed kitchen garden.

A daphne shrub with small purple flowers, which have a delicate and vibrant appearance, accompanied by small, glossy green leaves that create a contrasting backdrop.

Shrubs

9 Flowering Daphne Varieties For Your Landscape

Flowering daphne carries divine fragrance, flowers, and foliage. These attractive woody shrubs are multi-season jewels in the shade garden. In this article, gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores versatile flowering daphne varieties for your best fragrance-garden selections.

native plant landscaping. A garden scene featuring a blend of native and non-native plants, including Berberis bushes, Echinacea purpurea, Blazing stars, and Rudbeckia hirta flowering plants, with a Quercus pyrenaica tree and Ornamental Grass set against a low wooden fence, all set against a blurred backdrop of the house.

Ornamental Gardens

9 Tips for Landscaping With Native Plants

Why plant native plants? They invite local wildlife back into the garden, and they grow nutritious rewards for bugs, birds, and us humans. Follow these simple tips and learn how to best care for native plants in your yard alongside native plant gardener Jerad Bryant.

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Basics

7 Uses for Hori Hori Knives in the Garden

It sometimes seems we need a million tools for different garden tasks, but the Hori-Hori is a tool that could replace them all. Garden expert Christina Conner shares her favorite uses for this multifunctional Japanese tool.

A variety of tomatoes, some ripe, others still green, growing on a vine within a container, illuminated by the warm rays of the sun.

Vegetables

13 Best Tomato Varieties to Grow in Pots and Containers

With so many exceptional tomato varieties available for growing in pots and containers, the biggest challenge may be narrowing them down! Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in reviewing top-performing tomatoes to grow in containers this season. These vigorous producers will have us harvesting flavorful tomatoes with ease.