In Home Landscaping, Start With the Most Urgent
You’ve decided to do much of your landscaping yourself, step by step? Bravo! That’s perfectly feasible and will give youContinue Reading
Category: Gardening
How to Make Your Yard Dog-Friendly
The dog, we are told, is man’s best friend… but that’s not always true in the garden. Grass ripped out,Continue Reading
How to Grow a Monster Leaf Paulownia
The paulownia (Paulownia tomentosa), also called princess tree, royal empress tree or foxglove tree, is theoretically a fairly tall, fast-growingContinue Reading
Trap Plants for Slugs
A trap plant—also known as a trap crop or a sacrificial crop—is a plant that you grow specifically to attractContinue Reading
Sniff Houseplants Before You Buy!
These days, horticulture seems to have taken a huge step backward. Garden centers now currently sell plants in “designer pots*,”Continue Reading
Give Away Your Mower: There’s Now A Self-Mowing Lawn!
Researchers at the Aprilscherz Institute of Horticultural Technology of Wunschdenken, Germany, have announced the development of a self-mowing lawn grassContinue Reading
Is It Really Necessary to Emasculate Easter Lilies?
There’s a persistent and long-held belief that you have to remove the anthers (the orange structures that emerge from theContinue Reading
Cactus Microchipped to Stymie Plant Rustlers
Officials in Saguaro National Park in Tucson, Arizona, have had to resort to microchipping some 1,000 specimens of the park’sContinue Reading
Plant More Than Milkweeds to Save Monarchs
In North America, the serious decline of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), the black-veined orange migratory butterfly that winters inContinue Reading
Seeds You Don’t Need to Cover
With seed-starting season in full swing, it’s worth pointing out that most seed packs indicate how deep you should sowContinue Reading