While creating dazzling displays in the ground and in containers, Bidens species and cultivars also provide bountiful blooms for pollinators to forage nectar and pollen from. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Bidens come in a range of hues reminiscent of a summer campfire: red, orange, peach, and yellow, as well as pink and white....
Or at least that’s what professor of nutrition and epidemiology Dr. Eric Rimm and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School announced, based on the results of a study published in 2013. Truth be told, I’d eat them even if they weren’t so darned good for me. A fresh blueberry bursting in my mouth is the stuff of summer. And if you’re as big a fan as I am, perhaps you’ve gone berry picking before....
It is also a favorite of florists who appreciate the robust blooms for their vertical interest, sturdy stems, spicy-sweet aroma, and longevity in vase arrangements. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Here’s the lineup: Let’s get growing! Cultivation and History M. incana is one of approximately 50 Matthiola species. Also called gillyflower and ten-weeks, as well as hoary, Brompton, or vintage stock, the native species has been widely cultivated, and today’s varieties come in shades of apricot, lavender, pink, purple, red, white, yellow, and bicolor....
The flora that fascinates us would make a layman’s eyes glaze over, while also putting them in a near-fugue state. Exhibit A: me nerding out over a fern’s life cycle at last year’s Super Bowl party. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. It’s like someone took a bunch of qualities that awesome plants are supposed to have and mashed them all together: ornamental beauty, years of mythological significance, utility in weapon-making and medicine, plus a deadly toxicity?...
The bulbous root known as celeriac, or Apium graveolens var. rapaceum, isn’t going to win any awards for beauty. But it has a comforting, earthy flavor with hints of turnip, parsley, and celery. Plus, it’s got the consistency of a potato! We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. In this guide, we’ll answer all of these questions and more....
Whether you live in a warm climate and you’re eager to sow directly into the garden, or you live in a cold zone with a shorter growing season and you’re eager to get a jump on the preparations to provide a springtime bounty, our guide can help. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
Well, there’s no need to rue(!) the arrival of cold weather, because a few of our favorite kitchen seasonings, like parsley, are cold hardy and continue to grow year-round. Easy to overwinter in many regions, parsley produces crisp, fresh leaves at a slow but steady pace in cool temperatures. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
The presence of a horn on the back end of the green and white caterpillar only added to the alien look of the creature. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. How can you deal with these chubby, bold defoliators? Everything you need to know about these bottomless stomachs is laid out for you below!...
Stress can cause infection by the fungi Botryosphaeria spp. on more than 70 different types of trees and shrubs. One particular species, B. ribis, is responsible for stem end blight, a very difficult to manage disease that occurs during nut development. Unfortunately, pecan trees, Carya illinoensis, are amongst those that can suffer from this infection. As its name suggests, this disease can result in the branches dying back. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....
Armed with a freezer full of more peppers than anyone can possibly eat, I’ll still miss the fresh taste of my homegrown crop. Many gardeners treat hot peppers as annuals, and simply start new ones from seed in the winter months, ready to set out when the weather warms up in spring. I used to do this, but over the years as my “pepper obsession” grew, so did my collection of unusual varieties....
While it takes a bit of self-restraint each year to keep from filling every inch of my yard with juicy tomatoes, crunchy cucumbers, and giant sunflowers, I always appreciate the space I set aside for storage crops come winter. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. What are Turnips? Turnips are root crops and members of the mustard family with a long history of human cultivation....
While keeping them in the garden isn’t the only way to store this crop, it is a useful method for those of us with cold winters who are low on cool-storage space. And if you’ve followed our guide to growing carrots, you’ll more than likely have a bumper crop by now! We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
They make good companion plants for your vegetables, too. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Is it worth figuring out what types to plant beside or with what? Which plants work well together, and which don’t get along? We have all the answers laid out for you below. Here’s what we’ll talk about in this article:...
You work for weeks or months to nurture those little seedlings into hopefully vigorous roots. In the end, you’re rewarded with a crop of vibrant veggies that you believed all along were there, even though you couldn’t see them. At least, that’s what happens when everything goes according to plan. In the real world, this process isn’t always so perfect. Sometimes things go wrong, and when you shovel up your harvest from the earth, you may find that your beets weren’t growing as you’d expected under that little blanket of soil....
Though they’ll do well in gardens across a huge swath of the US (and the globe!), flowering in the summertime in USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 10 and beyond, some types of zinnias do better than others in dry heat, as they are tolerant of drought, while others can withstand the cool damp at the start or end of the growing season in certain regions. And disease resistance is an added feature of some types....
Commonly known as air plants, there are two types: mesic and xeric. The first come from tropical rainforest regions where moisture is abundant, and the second, from dry desert climes. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. In this article, we round up 17 of our favorite Tillandsia species, to guide you in building a collection of your own....
The blooms grow off a central stalk that ends in an umbel containing about 20 to 30 tube-shaped flowers. The umbel is between four and eight inches wide, depending on the cultivar. Agapanthus is the lone genus in the subfamily Agapanthoideae, part of the Amaryllidaceae family, but it makes up for this loneliness with its bounty of beautiful species and cultivars. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....
If your passionflowers aren’t giving you that big, impressive display that you know and love, something’s wrong. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Here’s what we’re going to cover: The bad news is that there are a lot of things that can cause a lack of blooming. But the good news is that most of them are pretty easy to resolve!...
You aren’t a failure doomed to a lifetime of pathetic houseplants, I promise. Pothos are living things, and like all living things, they can sometimes struggle to thrive. Anyone who has lived on a diet of fast food during a particularly busy time in their life can certainly relate. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
However, sometimes a year comes along with record-setting chills and frequent snow and ice storms, often surprising us with a last blast in early spring, when the buds are awakening. These freak weather flares can cause damage to plant tissue, undermining its ability to take up nutrients, and in severe cases, causing the tips of stems to die, and buds and flowers to freeze and wilt. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....
