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Easter Lilies

Caring for Potted Easter Lilies

pine trees

Plants and Flowers That Will Grow Under Pine Trees

Photo of a hedge apple.

What Are Hedge Apples Good For?

A free range chicken on a farm.

Keeping Chickens Out of Your Garden

Garden Bed Rockery

Building a Rock Garden

A large willow tree.

Solutions for a Willow Tree Planted Too Close to a...

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Hibiscus Flower

Getting Hibiscus Flowers to Bloom

Uses for Sweet Gum Balls

Uses for Sweet Gum Balls

A pathway covered in sawdust.

Using Sawdust in Your Garden

Bamboo

How Long Do Pine Trees Drip Sap?

Deer in Garden

Deer Resistant Plants

Plastic Flower Pots

Painting Plastic Flower Pots

closeup of honeysuckle flowers

Getting Rid of Honeysuckle

Photo of a beautiful garden on a sloped hill.

Gardening on Slopes

A yellow banana peel.

Garden Uses for Banana Peels

A shoot from a honeysuckle bush.

Honeysuckle Bush Shoots

Temporary Surface For Under Picnic Table

How to Kill a Passionfruit Vine

How Do I Neutralize Juglone Before Planting Vegetables?

Patch of Stinging Nettles

Killing Stinging Nettles

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Climbing Vines

Training Vines to Climb Arbors and Pergolas

Plant Hardiness Zones

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones

Are There Yellow Crepe Myrtles?

Growing a Trumpet Vine

Growing a Trumpet Vine

Wood Burning in Fireplace

Uses for Fireplace Ashes

Crepe Myrtle Not Blooming

Crepe Myrtle Not Blooming

Place Empty Bottles in Garden Pot - planter with plastic bottles in bottom

Fill Planters With Plastic Bottles

Do Lilacs Lose Their Leaves in the Fall?

Can a Dandelion be Several Feet Tall?

Trumpet Vine Not Flowering

Trumpet Vine Not Flowering

Confederate Jasmine

Confederate Jasmine Leaves Turning Brown and Falling Off

Blue and pinkish purple morning glory blooms.

Getting Rid of Morning Glory

How Can I Remove a Tree Stump?

Is Cypress Mulch Safe for Dogs?

Removing Poop Odor from Garden

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A mole sticking its head out of a mound in a yard.

What is Living Down the Hole in My Garden?

Growing Plants in Partial Shade

Growing Plants in Partial Shade

What Plant is Also Known as Sheep Shar or Shire?

How Many Quarts in a Bushel?

Brazilian Pepper Tree

Getting Rid of a Brazilian Pepper Tree

wisteria on chainlink fence

Dressing up a Chain Link Fence

Removing Bushes Near a House

Utility pole in a residential area.

Disguising a Utility Pole

An eggshell growing a seedling in the garden.

Eggshells for Your Garden

Small Walled Garden

Gardening in Small Spaces

Yucca Plants

Getting Rid of Yucca Plants

flowering yucca

Growing Yuccas Outdoors

gloves on table

Homemade Blackberry Pulling Gloves

Growing Tree Form Honeysuckle

Growing a Honeysuckle as Tree

Scheffelera Outside in Hard Freeze

Buying Bedding Plants

Buying Bedding Plants

A calla lily in a garden outside.

Planting a Calla Lily Outside

Hydrangea Leaves Turning Yellow

Free Wood Chips

cactus garden

Desert Gardening Advice

Growing Dwarf Conifers

Growing Dwarf Conifers

Gopher coming out of a hole.

Something is Eating Plant Roots

tulips

Good Plants for Morning Sun

Avocado Seeds Not Sprouting

Winterizing a Butterfly Bush

Winterizing a Butterfly Bush

Storing Used Coffee Grounds Until Spring

Planting Over a Septic Tank

Is This Flower Poisonous to Dogs?

Close up of clasped hands with dirt imbedded under the fingernails

Preventing Dirt From Getting Under Your...

How Do I Get Rid of Mold in My Flower Garden?

Deadheading a Hydrangea

Deadheading a Hydrangea

Close up of a poinsettia plant.

When Do you Bring a Poinsettia Inside for the Winter?

Removing Nandina Shrubs

ground coffee

Using Coffee Grounds in the Garden

Mandevilla Vine

Mandevilla Vine Not Blooming

Butterfly Bush Not Blooming

How Can I Make White Oil?

Growing Plants in Gravelly Soil

Sunflower Plants Growing Multiple Flowers Instead or One

Growing Recommendations for Zone 10b

Tomatoes with blossom end rot.

Dealing With Blossom End Rot on Tomatoes

Plant Sale

Saving Money by Shopping...

Juniper

Do Any Plants Smell Like Cat Urine?

A flowering plant in a pot.

Finding Free Plants

Photo taken staring up at a large willow tree.

Removing a Willow Tree

Potted plants in bright sunlight

Creating Shade for Potted Plants

Hands holding freshly picked rhubarb stalks

Harvesting Rhubarb

Ants In My Worm Farm

Can you use shredded paper as media to grow plants?

Tree stump in a yard.

Planting After Removing Pine Trees

What is Spirit of Salts?

A garden bed of orange colored Black-Eyed Susan flowers in bloom.

Drought, Heat, and Cold Tolerant Plants

Flowering Lilacs

Companion Plants for Lilacs

A classic bronze sundial

Using A Sundial

kitchen products for the garden

25 Garden Solutions from the Kitchen, Bath and Laundry

Building a Frame for Dragon Fruit Tree - closeup of fruit

Building a Frame for a Dragon Fruit Tree

Identifying a Garden Plant - spotted leaf calla lily

Identifying a Garden Plant

Using Eggshells In Your Garden - crushed shells around ornamental kale

Using Eggshells In Your Garden

Using a Door Screen as Landscape Cloth

Free Flower Pots at Lowe's Garden Center - shelves with plastic pots

Free Flower Pots at Lowe's Garden Center

Puppy in a flower bed.

Creating Flower Beds Where a Dog Previously Peed and Pooped

Harvesting Elderberries

Firethorn Does Not Flower

Close-up view of the iron wire supporting the vine plant.

Make a Trellis Out of an Old Box Spring

Flowering plants at a nursery.

5 Mistakes to Avoid When Shopping for Bedding Plants

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Dividing Potted Plants - potted plant

Dividing Potted PlantsWhen your plant is getting tight in the pot (or when you purchase a plant like this one), you can easily get more plants by separating into more pots. This will allow room for your plants to grow, or is a great way to give some plants away as gifts.

Starting Tomatoes in Coffee Cans

Starting Tomatoes in Coffee CansWhen starting tomato plants, I cut the bottom off of an empty Folger's coffee can. Then I poke some drain holes in the lid, put the lid on, and turn the can upside down. I fill the new pot with soil and plant my tomatoes. When they are ready to go into the garden I just take the lid off the bottom and the plant slides right out.

Protect Ripening Fruit with Newspaper - fruit tree festooned with newspaper wrapped fruit

Protect Ripening Fruit with NewspaperIn our yard, we have been experiencing more wild animals lately (i.e.: birds, rats, rabbits, etc.) especially since our yard is near a canyon. These animals are eating our fruit! It is quite frustrating watering these fruit trees, watching the fruit grow, and then finding them eaten/ruined.

Couple Tending and Watering in their Garden

Tending Your GardenThere is more to gardening than simply planting your tomatoes or veggies. Tending the garden means paying attention to the needs of the garden, supplement with water when it is dry, enrich poor soil, and check your garden routinely to ensure that it is healthy and happy. This is a guide about tending your garden.

Euonymus As Foundation Planting - 1 year's growth

Euonymus As Foundation PlantingI did a previous post on using Euonymus fortunei Emerald Gaiety as a foundation planting. My last picture in the post left you looking at some tiny Euonymus plants I had rooted. It also showed a dead Bermuda lawn. (I killed it).

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Removing Blackberries Without HerbicidesIn some parts of the country wild blackberries can be very invasive, and difficult to get rid of without chemicals. This is a guide about removing blackberries without herbicides.

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Homemade Blackberry GlovesWe are constantly battling blackberries in our yard.

Removing BlackberriesTackling blackberries is a pain in more than one way.

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Garden flowers for sale.

Buying and Transplanting Bedding PlantsBedding plants typically include annual or tender perennial flowers and some veggies. Choose healthy plants that are about to bloom. Plant them in a carefully prepared garden spot and keep well watered until they adjust to their new home. This is a guide about buying and transplanting bedding plants.

Vegetable Garden Growing Young Swiss Chard and Herbs.

Growing Vegetables in the ShadeWhile typically a vegetable garden is placed in a nice sunny location, there are a good number of veggies, herbs, and fruits (namely berries) that can be grown in partial shade. This is a guide about growing vegetables in the shade.

Umbrella in the rain.

Saving Your Garden from Torrential RainUnexpected heavy rainfall can cause destruction in your garden. Read the solution in this guide for an idea of how to save your garden in such a situation. This is a guide about saving your garden from torrential rain.

pile of books in garden.

5 Great Books for GardenersThere are many good books for gardeners. Everyone has their own special favorites. Keeping up with the latest tips and science of gardening is interesting and can certainly help improve your garden. This is a guide about 5 great books for gardeners.

Small aloe plant in a green pot.

How to Give an Aloe Plant as a GiftAloe vera is a great plant for gifting due to its growth of new baby plants. Potting the pups in their own containers provides new plants for your home or to gift to friends and family. This is a guide about how to give an aloe plant as a gift.

The bottom leaves on a sunflower sprout wilting.

Bottom Leaves on Sunflower Sprout WiltingToo much water and/or not enough sun are the two main culprits in this situation. This is a guide about bottom leaves on sunflower sprout wilting.

Questions

Mystery Black Insect Eggs or Fungus on Soil in Garden - what appears to be black insect eggs under ivy geraniums

Mystery Black Insect Eggs or Fungus on Soil in GardenWhat is this attached to the soil under my ivy geraniums. Is it mold or insect eggs? This is outside, in autumn, Brisbane qld Australia. It has been getting watered regularly.

Potted Hibiscus Does Not Bloom Outside in SummerI have an potted hibiscus that is almost 5 feet tall and blooms continuously all winter. In the summer I put it outside in a partly sunny location and it remains healthy, but does not flower. What am I doing wrong?

Growing Virginia Creeper and English Ivy TogetherThere is a parking garage in my neighborhood that will put up a metal screen and grow Virginia creeper and English ivy in order to cover up the façade and blend in with the residential area. I would like to know if you recommend those two plants to grow next to each other or if it would be better to use only one plant.

Planting a ClematisWhere should I plant a clematis. Should it be facing east? On the ground where it faces east, there are a lot of snails. I put the plant with planter there and last night it was surrounded by snails. I don't want to put out bait because we have cats and dogs in that area. What do you suggest?

Identifying Insect Eggs - elongated tan insect eggs attached to a branch

Identifying Insect EggsI found these eggs in my rose bush in March. Anyone know what they are? If beneficial I'd like to keep the twig and the eggs around. If not I'd like to dispose of the eggs.

Is the Tractor Seat Plant Deer Resistant?Is the giant leopard plant aka tractor seat plant deer resistant? Rarely eaten, occasionally eaten or frequently?

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