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How to Repot a Plant

How to Repot a Plant

Knowing when and how to repot a plant is essential for its long-term health. Follow our tips to learn how to repot a plant to keep it healthy, with plenty of room to grow.
How to Sterilize & Clean Plant Pots

How to Sterilize & Clean Plant Pots

Cleaning and sterilizing plant pots is an easy process that can go far in protecting your plants and extending the life of you pots. Whether your pots are clay, terracotta, plastic, wood, or metal, you can learn effective ways to clean and disinfect each.
Tips for Growing Watermelon in Containers

Tips for Growing Watermelon in Containers

Growing watermelon in containers is possible even if you only have a small space with which to work. Grab our top tips!
A Soil Calculator for Raised Beds and Containers

A Soil Calculator for Raised Beds and Containers

Before you make the trip to the garden center to buy potting or raised bed soil, you can easily determine how much you'll need using a simple soil calculator formula.
Tips for Bringing Potted Plants Inside

Tips for Bringing Potted Plants Inside

When the temperature starts to cool in fall, you can move tropical plants that were decorating your porch, patio, balcony or veranda indoors. Learn some of the best practices to move your houseplants inside for the winter.
4 Plants with Colorful Leaves for Pots

4 Plants with Colorful Leaves for Pots

Create a vibrant scene to decorate your doorway or porch! Combine bold-colored leaves from tropical plants in containers.
Container Plants That Come Back Every Year

Container Plants That Come Back Every Year

Decorate your deck, patio or doorstep! Use these low maintenance perennial plants create colorful, carefree planters.
How to Grow Peppers in Pots

How to Grow Peppers in Pots

Sweet or spicy—green, red, yellow, purple—peppers of all sorts are easy to grow in a container garden.
No-Brainer Container Combinations for Annual Plants

No-Brainer Container Combinations for Annual Plants

Eight easy-care plant combinations selected by a team of experts for their beauty, plant compatibility and outstanding performance all season long. Includes a printable PDF with step-by-step directions and a supply list that you can take along for shopping.
Secrets to Growing Citrus in Pots

Secrets to Growing Citrus in Pots

Follow this beginner’s guide to grow and harvest your own lemons, limes or mandarins.
Keep a Poinsettia Looking Good Longer

Keep a Poinsettia Looking Good Longer

Keep your poinsettia looking beautiful for as long as possible with these tips.
No-Brainer Container: Tried & Truly Beautiful

No-Brainer Container: Tried & Truly Beautiful

In less than 30 minutes you can create a no-guess, low mess container of fabulous plants. This easy-care combination was selected by a team of experts specifically for its beauty, plant compatibility, and outstanding performance all season long.
frost map with dates

Frost Map with Dates

USDA zone finder with zip code search and maps

USDA Zone Finder

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Plant Library

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