Garden Tips
Go beyond your everyday gardening topics with provoking, informational articles that explore what’s outside of your garden gate, and help nurture your inner gardener.
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Plant a Butterfly Garden: Best Plants that Attract Butterflies
Discover flowers, trees, and shrubs to attract butterflies and turn your yard into a pollinator haven, including flowers to attract monarch butterflies.

Different Seed Types You Can Grow
One of the first steps for growing plants is selecting from different seed types. Learn about the different heirloom, hybrid, standard, certified organic and non-GMO seeds.

Anthurium Care Indoors
Anthuriums are one of the most decorative and long-lasting flowering houseplants you can grow. Learn all about anthurium care indoors, including light, watering, and soil needs.

How to Tell the Difference Between a Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter Cactus
Learn how to tell the difference between a Christmas cactus, Thanksgiving cactus, and Easter Cactus. Three very similar plants that are grown and sold for holiday décor and gifting.

Best Gifts for Gardeners Under $10
If you’re gift shopping for your gardener friends, you don’t have to break the bank to find them a gift that they will enjoy or find useful. We have gift ideas that will work for any gardener.

How to Care for Italian Stone Pine
Italian stone pine is a popular potted ornamental tree, especially during the winter holidays. Learn how to care for Italian stone pine indoors and outdoors.

All About Flowering Holiday Plants
Every season brings a fresh array of potted flowering holiday plants that are perfect for decorating or for special occasions. Learn how to care for the most popular flowering holiday plants and get ideas for plants you can use to refresh your seasonal décor.

Trees with Beautiful Bark
Cold weather leaves many trees simply looking bare, but these trees with beautiful, unusual, smooth, shaggy, peeling or colorful bark can enhance the appearance of your winter landscape for decades to come.

Yucca Plant Care – How to Care for Yucca Elephantipes
Learn yucca plant care for houseplants (Yucca elephantipes), with tips on watering, light levels, soil, fertilizer, repotting, and troubleshooting common problems.

How to Grow Hostas
Hostas are easy to care for, love the shade and provide highly attractive foliage over a long season. Discover how to grow hostas successfully.

What’s Wrong with My Plant?
Brown leaf edges and wilting are just a couple of signals that something is wrong with your plant. Diagnose some of the most common houseplant problems and what you can do to correct them.

Invasive species in the U.S. – 5 Insect Pests That Damage Trees
There are many invasive insect species in the U.S. that damage trees. Their impacts are widespread. Let’s look at five of the most destructive of these pests, the damage they do and what, if anything, we can do to stop them.