How to Get Free Mother’s Day Flowers From Lowe’s
Photo: Satyrenko (Shutterstock) Mother’s Day can be a particularly tough holiday for some people, for a variety of different reasons. But if your family does celebrate, and wants to spend…
The Best Low-Maintenance Plants for Your Garden
Having a beautiful outdoor space is a spring and summer aspiration for many, but keeping up with all the weeding, watering, trimming, and mowing can be hard. Lots of gardeners…
10 Psychoactive Drugs You Can Grow at Home
Photo: Yarygin (Shutterstock) These ten plant (well, nine plants and one fungus, to be technical) can be grown in your home, backyard, or greenhouse, and all of them can get…
How to Handle Ragweed Season
Photo: New Africa (Shutterstock) If you have fall allergies, the time is nearly upon us for sneezing and itching. (Depending on where you live, it may have already begun.) Here…
It’s Not Too Late to Start Your Summer Garden
Photo: nazarovsergey (Shutterstock) If you think you waited way too long to get your garden going this year or if, like me, you live in a place where it rained…
Plant These Succulents to Attract Pollinators to Your Garden
Photo: VicOliver (Shutterstock) When we think of plants that attract pollinating insects, flowers with stamens, pistils, and visible pollen come to mind. But not everyone lives in an area where…
How to Grow an Edible Flower Garden
Photo: ON-Photography Germany (Shutterstock) Planning your garden can be a challenge when it comes to weighing both form and function, but you don’t have to choose between a flower garden…
Why Allergy Season Is Getting Longer
Photo: sruilk (Shutterstock) If it seems like allergy season is getting worse every year, you’re probably not imagining it. Scientists who study the timing and movement of pollen have found…
How ‘Benign Neglect’ Can Actually Improve Your Garden
Photo: 1000 Words (Shutterstock) If you like the idea of a bountiful garden, but you’re less keen on all the watering, fertilizing, and care it entails, I have a gardening…
15 of the Easiest Perennials to Grow
Image: Simon Groewe (Shutterstock) Gardening can be demoralizing if, after hours of sweaty work, your results are lackluster and your plants decimated by bugs or eaten by deer. Worse is…