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Woman Buying Plants at Garden Store

Buying Plants Tips and TricksThere are several good practices for buying plants, such as keeping receipts for replacements, buying discounted plants, and making sure the plants you choose are the best choice for your garden. This is a guide about buying plants tips and tricks.

gloves on table

Homemade Blackberry Pulling GlovesThis is a guide about making homemade blackberry pulling gloves. Removing blackberry plants manually can leave you with lots of thorns in your hands unless you protect them well.

air plant in container

Caring for an Air PlantThis is a guide about caring for an air plant. If you have a location with bright indirect light you might want to try growing an air plant. They are fairly easy to care for.

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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.

Rice paper butterfly on small pink flowers

Making a Butterfly GardenSeeing a beautiful butterfly gracefully fluttering in the garden is a joyous experience. There are a variety of plantings that will encourage these delicate creatures to visit your garden. This is a guide about planting a butterfly garden.

Monarch butterfly on orange flower.

How to Attract ButterfliesButterflies are welcome visitors to the garden. There are various ways to attract these delicate beauties. This guide is about how to attract butterflies.

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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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Close up of a poinsettia plant.

When Do you Bring a Poinsettia Inside for the Winter?Poinsettia plants can suffer cold damage once temperatures drop below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. This is a guide about, "When do you bring a poinsettia inside for the winter?".

Corkscrew Vine Bloom Time - flowers beginning to bloom

Corkscrew Vine Bloom TimeI've gotten some private messages asking for further information on the corkscrew vine (Vigna Caracalla). I'm making this post so all who are interested can share this information.

The Long Awaited Wisteria Bloom

Growing Wisteria as a StandardGrowing a vining plant such as wisteria as a standard, means training it to develop a more treelike form. This is a guide about growing wisteria as a standard.

A melon plant with a yellow blossom.

Hand Pollinating MelonsBy using a small art brush you can pollinate your own melon vines, if the bees are not available for the job. This is a guide about hand pollinating melons

A gardenia bud, not blooming.

Gardenia Not BloomingEncouraging a potted gardenia to bloom may require giving it some acidic fertilizer. This is a guide about gardenia not blooming.

Gardenia plant.

Leaves on Gardenia Turning BrownWhen plants are in pots, they can become root bound and may need new soil and a larger pot. This is a guide about leaves on gardenia turning brown.

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Questions

Canna Lily Leaves Are RippedWhy do my canna leaves have rips in the leaves?

Selling Bamboo OnlineI have lots of bamboo where and how can I sell it?

Protecting Trees and Flowers from Spring FrostsSpring brings killer frosts. What is the least expensive way to protect flowers and trees from killer frosts?

Tropical Hibiscus Not BloomingMy tropical hibiscus has stopped blooming. The plant is deep green and growing. The only thing different is I put 1-2 inches of potting soil around the whole pot (2-1/2 ft by 25").

Creating New Flower Beds Where Dog Pees and PoopsWe have 0 landscaping at our home so we have been letting our female GSD pee and poop in one area. We are now meeting with landscapers to plant in the area where she does her business. What do we have to do to treat the soil and how long before we plant so we make sure they survive?

What Is Growing in My Easter Lily Pot? - small yellow plants perhaps a fungi

What Is Growing in My Easter Lily Pot?I have these growths happening in my Easter lily pot. It's kept in the house. What is this and is it normal?

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Photo of a hedge apple.

What Are Hedge Apples Good For?

Crepe Myrtle Not Blooming

Crepe Myrtle Not Blooming

A free range chicken on a farm.

Keeping Chickens Out of Your Garden

Do Lilacs Lose Their Leaves in the Fall?

A large willow tree.

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

Hibiscus Flower

Getting Hibiscus Flowers to Bloom

Attracting Chipmunks into Yard

pine trees

Plants and Flowers That Will Grow Under Pine Trees

Trumpet Vine Not Flowering

Trumpet Vine Not Flowering

Growing a Trumpet Vine

Growing a Trumpet Vine

Wood Burning in Fireplace

Uses for Fireplace Ashes

Plastic Flower Pots

Painting Plastic Flower Pots

Bamboo

tulips

Good Plants for Morning Sun

Cheap or Free Plastic Barrels

Planting Vegetables in Alabama

Growing Tree Form Honeysuckle

Growing a Honeysuckle as Tree

Bees Destroying My Grapes

Harvesting Walnuts

Blue and pinkish purple morning glory blooms.

Getting Rid of Morning Glory

Cutting Back Sunflowers

Removing Poop Odor from Garden

Climbing Vines

Training Vines to Climb Arbors and Pergolas

tomatoes

Answers to Seldom Asked Gardening Questions

Tips for Watering Plants

Watering Plants

Sunflower Plants Growing Multiple Flowers Instead or One

Elephant Ear Plant

Wintering an Elephant Ear Plant

Clearing Land

Land Clearing Tips

A pathway covered in sawdust.

Using Sawdust in Your Garden

Garden Bed Rockery

Building a Rock Garden

A classic bronze sundial

Using A Sundial

Easter Lilies

Caring for Potted Easter Lilies

Photo of a beautiful garden on a sloped hill.

Gardening on Slopes

Keeping Grass from Growing in Mulch

ivy vine growing on brick

Fast Growing Vines

yellow and orange dahlias.

Staking Dahlias

Poison Oak leaves.

Getting Rid of Poison Oak

Winterizing a Butterfly Bush

Winterizing a Butterfly Bush

Muddy Yard

Fixing a Muddy Yard

Can you use shredded paper as media to grow plants?

Can a Dandelion be Several Feet Tall?

flowering yucca

Growing Yuccas Outdoors

Growing Hydrangeas Inside

Growing Hydrangeas Inside

Preparing Your Garden for the First Frost

Preparing Your Garden for the First Frost

Deer in Garden

Deer Resistant Plants

Patch of Stinging Nettles

Killing Stinging Nettles

Broken Pumpkin Plant Stems

A mom planting flowers with her child.

Gardening With Children

Dark Purple Banana Peppers

plant rows

Gardening in Small Spaces

Keeping orchids upright

Keeping Orchids Upright

Plant That Looks Similar To Cabbage

Watering using a house and sprayer on a sunny day.

The Surprising Facts Behind 10 Gardening Myths

Hummingbird Vine

Wintering Hummingbird Vines

Urban gardening

10 Tips for Urban Gardening

A red canna lily.

Canna Lily Leaves Are Ripped

Turkey Baster To Transfer Garden Chemicals - turkey baster and garden chemicals in containers

Turkey Baster To Transfer Garden Chemicals

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

Fill Planters With Plastic Bottles

Preventing Mud Under Outdoor Faucet

Preventing Mud Under Outdoor Faucet

Toddler Fun With Flowers - little boy with flowers in his hair

Toddler Fun With Flowers

The Tualatin Valley Garden Club's booth at the farmer's market.

Buy Plants from Local Gardeners

tomato suckers

How to Remove Tomato Suckers

Old Panty Hose

Use Old Panty Hose to Tie Up Plants

Juniper

Do Any Plants Smell Like Cat Urine?

A plastic zipper bag with a seedling inside.

Using Plastic Zipper Bags as Mini Greenhouse

Two goldfish in a tank with green plants.

Uses for Fish Tank Water

closeup of zip tied plant

Use Zip Ties to Support Plants

Woman Spraying Insecticide on plants

The Right Way To Spray Insecticides and Fungicides

Plants with cord wrapped around stem and bamboo stake.

Using Telephone Receiver Cord to Tie Up Plants

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

Drought, Heat, and Cold Tolerant Plants

A rose arbor over a path to a botanical garden.

5 Great Reasons to Visit a Botanical Garden

Transplant Bedding Plants Quickly - river birch and hornbeam

Transplant Bedding Plants Quickly

A hosta with the leaves eaten.

Deer Eating My Hosta Leaves

A garden trellis with flowers growing in it.

Choosing the Right Trellis

A calla lily in a garden outside.

Planting a Calla Lily Outside

Building a Frame for Dragon Fruit Tree - simple wooden support frame

Building a Frame for Dragon Fruit Tree

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

What is Living Down the Hole in My Garden?

A shoot from a honeysuckle bush.

Honeysuckle Bush Shoots

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