How to Keep Potted Herbs Alive Inside All Winter
I almost never buy fresh herbs at the store unless I have a specific need—but when they’re right outside my door in the garden in the warmer months, I use…
How to Choose the Best Fall Fertilizer for Anything in Your Garden
Fall is one of the three times of year you fertilize. When plants are ready to wake up in spring, you surprise them with a brunch of nitrogen-rich plant food…
All the Yard and Garden Tasks You Should Do in October
October can be a strange month. Even when early fall dips back into summer-like temperatures, you can tell the season has changed. If light frosts haven’t set in yet, the…
All the Seeds You Should Be Saving Right Now for Next Year
Many gardeners are aspirational when it comes to saving seeds even if there are some good reasons to skip it. If you’re gardening year round, you don’t always have time…
Why Your Flower Stems Have Gone Crooked (and How to Straighten Them Out Next Year)
One of my favorite TikTok gardeners, GardeningGrant, complained earlier this summer about cockeyed liatris, a normally straight-as-an-arrow perennial. I had heard this complaint in a few other places about other…
You Should Divide These Perennials in Late Summer
Perennials—the plants that come back year after year—are always worth the investment. But you can save even more on that investment by simply dividing the plants that are already in…
Save Money Gardening by Growing Your Own Perennials From Seed
Perennials are the returning summer guests that pop up with gifts each year. Plant them once and you’ll see them grow larger and more prolific every summer season. That’s the…
Why Those Half-Dead Plants Are Actually a Good Deal
I call it the “sad plant shelf” (or SPS for short), and I make a beeline to it at every nursery I visit. This is the place where nursery workers…
You Can Build a Stunning Flower Wall for Your Home
Neighbors complimenting my garden is 97% of why I grow things to begin with. And when I found Cynthia Stringham and her flower walls on Instagram, I thought, “If you…
Plant These Self-Sowing Flowers for a Low-Maintenance Garden
Perennials are a popular option for flower gardens, and for good reason—they come back on their own. But there’s another option to bring flowering annuals into your garden that don’t…