Gardening How-to Articles

Flowering cherry trees are excellent choices for a home garden or backyard. They come in a wide variety of sizes and shapes to fit almost any location, and they tolerate most types of soils. Read › Flowering Cherry Trees for Your Own Garden

Witch hazels have a lovely natural form, smooth gray bark, and vibrant fall foliage. Maybe best of all, they have unusual, fragrant flowers that bloom when few other flowers do. Read › Witch Hazels: Winter Flowers, Fall Foliage, and Lovely Form

Christmas-roses, Lenten-roses and other hellebores bloom in cold months, providing lovely, lasting flowers just when you need them most. Read › Hellebores: Flowers from Winter into Spring

Pink- or white-blossomed hardy begonia thrives in the shade. It blooms in summer and early autumn, and its foliage is as lovely as its flowers. Read › Hardy Begonia: Summer Blooms and Wonderful Foliage in the Shade

This dainty-looking groundcover is actually pretty tough. Its leaves can be uses to flavor May wine or punch. Read › Sweet Woodruff: Shade-Loving Groundcover and Aromatic Herb

Sedums, also called stonecrops, are easy-to-grow succulents that frequently planted on green roofs. They also make wonderful, drought-tolerant garden plants. Read › Sedum: Easy-to-Grow Succulents With Seasonal Interest

These hardy, sun-loving natives provide cool contrast to autumn foliage. Read › Asters: Stars of the Show in Fall

A member of the Amsonia genus, bluestar looks lovely year round. Plant it in border, container, or rain garden. Butterflies and hummingbirds love it. Read › Bluestar: A Native Perennial with Spring Flowers and Fall Color

Create a miniature wetland habitat for carnivorous plants, orchids, and other bog-loving species. Read › Grow Carnivorous Plants in a DIY Mini-Bog

You don't have to be a botanist to propagate ferns. Learn how to collect and prepare spores and how to use them to grow ferns. Read › How to Grow Ferns from Spores