If you're cultivating a pollinator garden or growing herbs for food, medicine, or home goods, be sure to add Agastache plants. These stunning members of the mint family are absolutely adored by bees ...
Bachelor’s Buttons: How to Grow and Take Care of These Wildflowers
Bachelor’s buttons used to be ubiquitous. They filled roadside fields and popped up between rows of corn. They intermingled with bright red poppies and sweet, white yarrow in country bouquets ...
How to Grow Luffa Gourds to Create Your Own Sponges
You know those loofah sponges you can buy at fancy stores? Those aren't some strange sea creatures. They're actually the fibrous flesh of the luffa gourd. Luffa gourds aren't just useful for making ...
Natal Plum: How to Grow and Raise This Tasty Ornamental Shrub
Southern states are full of gorgeous plants, and warm-weather flowering shrubs are some of the most stunning. One of the prettiest of the warm climate shrubs is the natal plum. Fast-growing and ...
How to Grow and Raise Beautiful Butterfly Peas
Butterfly peas are incredibly popular right now. From beautiful, violet gins to butterfly pea smoothies, these stunning, edible flowers are finding their rightful place in the kitchen garden. ...
How to Grow Dogwood Trees for Magnificent Fruit and Flowers
Dogwoods come in a vast range of sizes, colors, and shapes, with some featuring pale pink petals or bright orange flowers. Some have red bark that adds winter interest. You can grow them as large ...
The Complete Guide to Growing Crabapples
Crabapples don't get the respect and appreciation that they deserve. These small, sour cousins to the sweet Malus apples we transform into pies and crumbles may not have the same sugar content, but ...
Growing Hawthorns: How to Plant and Raise Crateagus Trees
I love growing hawthorns. Soft and pillowy white with blossoms in the spring, cheerful with berries in the fall, and gracefully curved all year long, hawthorns are a focal point in the yard or garden. ...
How to Grow, Care, and Harvest Olive Trees
Growing olives in your home garden is to be a part of ancient gardening history. Olives date back to ancient Greece, so I can't help but imagine those same plants growing in the Mediterranean sun when ...