Grow Your Own Bog Garden
If you have a leaky pond or a perennially wet patch in your backyard, you can convert it into a child-safe bog garden. Here’s how.
Tips on Planting in Summer
Planting is not confined to spring and fall. You may have sound reasons for sowing seed in summer. Here is how.
All About Growing Native Plants in Your Garden
Native plants are gradually earning space in backyard gardens everywhere. Here’s how to incorpoate them into your garden.
7 Flowers to Plant this Summer
The flowers of late summer and autumn are particularly gorgeous. Here are seven flowers to plant in your summer garden.
Grow Your Own Morning Glory Flowers
In nature’s magnificent show, the morning glory undergoes costume changes like no other floral diva. With normal fluctuations in pH levels, its petals will shift color from blue to pink, and sometimes red in the course of a single day. Morning glories are annual climbers with slender, curling stems, lush, green, heart-shaped leaves, and trumpet […]
Grow Your Own Asters
With more than 600 species in the Aster genus, you have a galaxy from which to choose the precise variety for your garden. Here’s how you grow these lovely flowers from seed.
Big Ideas for a Small Garden
The phrase “small is beautiful” will almost certainly come to mind when one is confronted with the challenge of designing a garden for a compact space. Here are a few ideas that might help.
8 Tips to Help You Grow a Wildlife Garden
Making our gardens more attractive to birds, mammals, and other creatures does not require a lot of work.
Want to grow a rooftop garden? Here’s how to get started.
City dwellers are finding ways around limited gardening space by growing gardens on rooftops. Here’s how to start your own rooftop garden.
Growing Amaranth for Edible Greens
These days, many homeowners grow amaranth strictly as a front lawn ornamental plant. Here’s how to grow it for edible greens in your backyard.