Category Garden Ideas

To start new lawn from seed, many people wonder which is better: laying sod or sowing seeds. While laying sod is fast […]

Easy Orchid Species for the Beginner Complex, delicate, incredibly diverse, and stunningly beautiful, orchids are oft considered to be the crowning achievement […]

Pothos is arguably the easiest houseplant to grow. It’s a long-growing, leafy vine that can reach 40 feet or more in tropical […]

How to Propagate Succulents If you’re anything like me, you probably love to have succulents in the house. I try to keep […]

You’ve invested in a piece or set of outdoor wood furniture, and you want to make sure it lasts for several years. […]

The Maranta genus includes a few dozen low-growing plants native to the American tropics. Maranta have some of the most beautiful, most […]

As winter crops, kale and collards can’t be beat. These two members of the cole family are the least problematic and hardiest […]

Beautiful Rock Garden Ideas In designing and building a home garden, you need to consider these rock garden ideas. Beautiful garden for […]

The name Pumpkins refers to a plants associated usually with the Cucurbita pepo; these are smooth, dark yellow to orange in color, […]

Summer is a time of beauty and abundance in the garden. It’s also a busy time for the gardener, full of chores […]

Pesticides are the only toxic substances we intentionally release into our environment in order to kill living things. The chemicals don’t just harm […]

You know, not too long ago the only spaces in your home that you had to worry about designing were those that […]

Carnivorous plants are meat eating plants that need the nutrients from their natural growing conditions, like air, water and soil, to live […]

Lawn and Garden Tips for Summer Heat Stress When temperatures climb above 90° F, most garden plants – lawns, flowers, and veggies – […]

Bloom Boosters are said to increase the number of flowers on your plant. Nonsense. They don’t work, and can actually make your […]

When most people picture a vegetable garden, they imagine a spot that bakes in the sun all day. For some vegetables, such […]

Inspired by the natural world around him, English stonemason Johnny Clasper creates mesmerizing hand-built walls, mosaics and sculptural landscapes that transform stone […]

June Gardening Tips Early June is a great time to finish planting gardens, containers and hanging baskets and then spend time relaxing […]

Lawn Watering Tips Proper Tips for Watering and Maintaining Healthy Grass A healthy lawn is definitely a pleasing site for most people […]

If you want to build a construction to store your plants during the cold winters or to grow your own vegetables, we […]

How to Grow Yellow Watermelon Nothing beats the taste of a delicious, sweet, homegrown watermelon during the hot summer months. Gardeners have […]

Container gardening is so similar and yet so different from growing in ground that it deserves its own spot in the sun. […]

Freesia Planting Guide Freesia flowers are “zygomorphic” which just means that they grow along one side of the stem, in a single […]

Having a swimming pool in your backyard is a real blessing, but before you start building a pool, there are a few […]

I don’t like the idea of adding chemicals to our environment, whenever it can be helped. And let’s be honest… If you […]

“You can never have too many tomato plants, but what happens when you run out of room in the garden. Tomatoes are […]

What to Grow in the Shade Garden An abundance of large trees and shady areas in your yard can be a challenge […]

Most flowers are made to smell delightful — all the better to lure in pollinators, such as bees. The pollinators then get […]

Vertical gardening can greatly improve your crop production. Keeping vegetable plants off the soil will help prevent soil-borne diseases, and may limit […]

For the most part, the areas where home gardeners plant the citrus trees are the same areas where citrus is grown commercially. […]