Gardening - General

Plant Combos that get noticed!

Impress the neighbors and beautify your backyard with these 10 attention-grabbing plant partners.

Planting a Healthy Hedge

In most yards, a hedge is an organic fence. Like a fence, a hedge can enclose your yard, block the wind and give you privacy. In other ways, a hedge is better than a fence: It's a softer boundary that blends with other plants and changes with the seasons. And a hedge can last practically forever.

Pruning Tips

Learn the basics of how and when to prune your plants.

Ready, Set...Grow!

Take six basic landscaping steps to turn your backyard from barren to beautiful.

Retirement is Bliss

Retirement gave this couple time to explore a new hobby--gardening. Learn how they fell in love with their new backyard.

Shade Plant Profiles

Plant these shade-tolerant plants to give life to the places where the sun doesn't shine

Shady Characters

Gardeners often fall into the latter category because low-light conditions prevent the development of lush lawns, leaving shady areas looking bare, or worse yet, weedy.

Shaping a Standard

Train bougainvillea into a topiary form that looks like a tree.

Small Space, Big Impact

Packed Patios. Tight quarters? Rest easy. If you have room for a lawn chair, you have room for flowers.

Snip, Plant, Grow

Taking cuttings is a great way to expand or share the beauty of any garden. Perhaps you'd like to preserve a flower with family history, increase your collection of favorite blooms or reproduce that hard-to-find plant.

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