March 16, 2017 Spring Gardens Are Waking Up - Here's What to Do in March Clean your pruners and get out your gardening gloves. Spring is here, bringing longer days, fresh blooms and annual garden chores. While you’re at it, try something new in the garden — native or exotic — and remember your local wildlife. Here’s what to do in March in the U.S., region by region.
March 7, 2017 Classic Bigleaf Hydrangeas Add Old-Fashioned Charm to a Garden With their sturdy structure, dense form and showy flowers that last for months, hydrangeas have earned their spot as a favorite of gardeners in all but the coldest regions. They might have made their mark in old-fashioned cottage-style gardens, but many gardeners have now discovered that they can be equally at home as statement plants or flowering borders in both traditional and contemporary gardens.
March 1, 2017 Find Out Which Type of Mulch Is Right for Your Garden Mulches used in the home landscape perform many of these natural functions, some better than others. In addition, mulch also serves as a design element, adding color and texture to the ground plane. Determining the best mulch to use depends on where you are, the type of landscape you are working with and your aesthetic goals.
February 24, 2017 20 White Flowers for a Brighter Garden White flowers brighten gardens by enhancing everything around them, rather than stealing the show. Here are 20 of our favorite white-flowering great design plants, all of which will illuminate your garden or planting containers. Some are U.S. natives and others are exotics, blooming throughout the year and in a wide range of conditions.
February 16, 2017 Give your garden structure with these top 10 shrubs Whether planted for privacy, as a wind buffer or to outline a planting bed, evergreen shrubs can be useful plants to hide problem areas and define garden spaces. Selecting the right shrub for each role in the garden can cut down on maintenance and ensure that your garden will look good year-round.
February 9, 2017 10 Native Bees and How to Welcome Them to Your Landscape With about 4,000 species of bees that occur in North America, many gardeners and nongardeners alike are unaware of the diversity of native bees that are busy going about their work of collecting pollen or sipping nectar from flowers.
February 9, 2017 How to Navigate a Seed Catalog Nurseries, home improvement stores and even grocery stores may have racks of seeds available when it’s time to start gardening, but there’s nothing like looking through seed catalogs, especially when it comes to choosing edibles.
February 3, 2017 For tailgaters, game is optional but grilling is not Turns out that getting tickets to the game is one of the least important things to tailgaters.
February 3, 2017 10 cost-saving steps to a great kitchen Get ready for sticker shock: Even a minor kitchen remodel now costs more than $19,000, on average, according to Remodeling Magazine’s annual Cost vs. Value report.
