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Are colored poinsettias really real?

Holiday plant alternatives to consider

Have you been paying attention? Dig in to this gardening quiz and brush up on your expertise

🎁 Gifts for gardeners and everyone else on your list

🎁 Gifts for gardeners and everyone else on your list

You may never know the impact you have on others

Transplanting trees and protecting plants from cats -- and vice-versa

How to make leaf mold, and how many leaves are too many to leave on the lawn

The world has a seed "doomsday vault," and it just got a huge deposit

Yes, you can save geraniums over winter

My 2 favorite time- and money-saving grass-seed hacks

Dealing with storm damage, stunted, bloomless cannas and your weekly gardening tip

Why you SHOULDN'T till your soil or add compost to planting holes.

When to replace container soil, what is cotton burr compost, and what should (and shouldn't) we clean up in fall?

How to safely tease apart pot-bound roots, and planting a tree near a ground-up stump

Is fall a good time to plant perennials?

Founders' Event today!

Sweater weather is soup weather: Do you have a "scraps" freezer bag?

Reminder: Founders' Event in 2 days!

Important Founders' Event Access Information

Winter wildlife tips (yes, now!), and filling gaps under evergreens

Fruits of a brutal summer and when to prune hydrangeas

Our first virtual get-together

Sterile, non-invasive butterfly bush varieties you can plant with a clear conscience

Sex and the single zucchini, help for floppy hydrangeas, and the gardener's three-year rule

How to keep spotted lanterflies from eating your plants, and a scary math equation

Dealing with spider mites

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Hand-picked Prime Day garden deals

Some accolades, protecting plants from critters and a great way to organize plant tags

SPECIAL GIVEAWAY EDITION: How, why and where to use groundcovers, with author Kathy Jentz

Oh, grow up! Vertical gardening can multiply your garden space

How to control mosquitoes, slugs and earwigs

Mulches: The good, the bad and the downright ugly

How to tell the difference between a "good" ladybug and a "bad" one

The 5 most-popular posts of all time

Would you pee on your plants?

Readers wax poetic about pollinators in our 2024 Garden Poetry Contest

Gardening With Grains

Gardening hacks that work (and don't)

The right way to plant a tree

Does a sun-loving, drought-tolerant, disease-resistant, mid-sized tree exist? Yes!

The leaves must still be left

Enter the 2024 Garden Poetry Contest

Growing Edelweiss and Shamrocks

Are dandelions friends or foes?

Supporting an uprooted tree

It's time to prune roses -- maybe for you, anyway

How much spring would a groundhog predict if a groundhog could accurately predict spring?

A new plant to grow indoors; navigating deer damage

What your garden needs in January -- wherever you are

New, award-winning plants to look for this spring

What can our plants teach us about life?