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How to Control Earwigs in Your Flower Garden
6 Ways to Protect Your Garden from Earwig Damage Earwigs can make even the most unflappable gardener shudder. These dark-brown insects with armore...
How and Why to Deadhead Flowers
Removing Spent Flowers Encourages More Blooms If you are a flower gardener, deadheading is a task you can’t ignore. Removing spent flowers keeps yo...
How to Control Thrips
Western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) are serious pests that can be found in greenhouses, nurseries, and landscapes. They thrive in wa...
8 Tips for A Water-Saving Flower Garden
How to Grow a Flower Garden With Less Water Watering your flower garden can be relaxing, but it can also become a time-consuming chore. And in many...
Choosing Plants for Sun or Shade
What to Know About Light Intensity and Duration Some plants are not fussy about whether they grow in sun or shade, but most of them have a preferen...
How to Protect Your Garden From Rabbits, Woodchucks and Other Pesky Rodents
Advice for Keeping Furry Marauders at Bay When your flower garden is being invaded by furry varmints, it's hard not to be discouraged. Your first i...
How to Attract Birds to Your Garden
Make Your Garden a Haven for Songbirds Gardens are about so much more than plants. They also give us endless opportunities to deepen our connect...
Flowers That Attract Hummingbirds
Grow the Flowers Hummingbirds Can't Resist Hummingbirds are incredibly fun to watch, as they zoom around your yard at 30 to 40 mph. The best way...
How and Why to Fertilize Your Plants
Plants Need Good Nutrition, Too! As gardeners, we are eager to do right by our plants and give them all the light, water and nutrients they need to...
How to Attract Butterflies to Your Garden
Grow Flowers Butterflies Can't Resist It’s always fun to see a butterfly passing through your garden – but more fun when they stay around for awhil...
How to Control Slugs and Snails
How to Protect Your Plants From Slimy Marauders They may look harmless, but slugs and snails can cause a surprising amount of damage in a garden. T...
New to Flower Gardening? Here's Where to Start
Planning, Planting and All-Season Care If you're a beginning gardener, peering in through the garden gate, it’s easy to feel intimidated. How do yo...
The Best Mulch for Flower Gardens
How to Select the Right Mulch for Your Garden There are many good reasons for mulching your flower garden. Covering the soil with a layer of mulch ...
How to Make Cut Flowers Last Longer
Expert Tips for Long-Lasting Bouquets Making flower arrangements with homegrown flowers is a pleasure from start to finish. Growing them adds be...
How to Design a Hummingbird Garden
Plant Flowers Hummingbirds Can't Resist Hummingbirds are fun to have around and the more you know about them, the more impressive they are. As thes...
How to Water Your Plants
Learn Why Watering Correctly is So Important Anyone can pour water on a plant. But it takes time and experience to understand how plants use water ...
How to Control Weeds in Your Flower Garden
Don't Let Weeds Get the Upper Hand Everyone has different standards of neatness. That’s true in the garden as well as in the house. Gardens that lo...
How to Design a Bee-Friendly Garden
Know Your Pollinators and What They Need Home gardens can provide safe havens for wild and domestic bees. These pollinators need our help as they s...
DIY Wedding Flowers: Tips for Growing and Arranging
Expert Advice for Growing Your Own Wedding Flowers Are you or someone you know getting married sometime soon? Are you considering growing and arran...
Best Flowers for Bees
Make Your Garden a Popular Destination for Pollinators Bees live on the pollen and nectar of flowers, so the best way to attract them to your garde...
