Garden Basic Essentials

Annuals, Perennials and Bulbs That Deer Usually Ignore If you live in an area with a large deer population, you are probably all too familiar wi...

The Right Tool Makes Every Job Easier What's the best tool for planting tulips, daffodils and other spring-blooming bulbs? See a number of differen...

Popular Bulbs and Perennials and When They Bloom If you want your flower garden to be colorful from early spring through fall, you need plants that...

Enhance Your Garden With the Beauty of Bulbs Flowering bulbs have an important advantage over regular plants: they can store energy from one growin...

Get Your Garden Off to a Great Start As the days begin to lengthen and winter turns to spring, gardeners everywhere breathe a collective sigh of re...

Right Plant, Right Place Today’s gardeners have easy access to amazing plants from all over the world: agapanthus from South Africa, ferns from New...

Plants Grow Best With the Right Amount of Light Some plants are not fussy about whether they are planted in sun or shade, but most have a preferenc...

Recycle Your Leaves for a Better Garden Raking leaves may not be your favorite thing to do on a beautiful fall day. But rather than thinking of it ...

Learn About Bulbs, Corms, Tubers and More! Many of the plants that we commonly consider "bulbs" are actually corms, tubers, tuberous roots or rhizo...

What to Do Now for a Better Garden Next Year This October/November to-do list includes six tasks that will set the stage for next year’s garden. Th...

Find Your Location and Climate Zone For the most up to date USDA hardiness zone map CLICK HERE.

Plan for a Succession of Colorful Blooms Flower bulbs make it easy to keep your garden colorful from early spring through fall. You can get a jump ...

Fill Your Garden With Color From Spring Through Fall Spring and summer bulbs make it easy to fill your yard and garden with color from early spring...