They’re also a challenge to grow. They need regular pruning, staking, and special care to keep them looking their best. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. This guide will help you make your tree rose into the crown jewel of your garden, rather than an eyesore. Here’s what you’ll learn in the upcoming guide: No doubt you’re excited to jump in, so let’s go!...
Per the Cambridge Dictionary, the correct pronunciation is “coy-er,” but folks generally call it “core.” Most comes from India and Sri Lanka, where the coconut palm, Cocos nucifera, grows plentifully. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. A Coco Industry Since ancient days, the sturdiest coconut fibers have been used to fashion articles like baskets, mats, ropes, and bedding....
When I saw that my colleague here at Gardener’s Path had written a guide to growing verbena, one of my favorite ground covers, I eagerly clicked over to his article. And a fine article it is. However, Matt’s idea of this plant, unsurprisingly, is very different from mine. While Matt is more familiar with the varieties of this plant that do well in Pennsylvania, where he lives, what I know as verbena in central Texas seems like a completely different plant....
You can set them in the ground and go about your life, for the most part, and they’ll still be out there doing their thing. Unless, of course, they aren’t. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Or perhaps your plants were blooming away but now they’ve stopped. Whatever the circumstance, your Tagetes just aren’t blooming....
Foraging for mushrooms in the wild is fun, exciting, and also a wonderful way to incorporate a little exercise into your food-finding missions. But sometimes you want to be able to pick them a little closer to home – like in your own backyard, or even in your living room. And especially for safety’s sake, it’s great to be able to know exactly what you’re getting in terms of variety, chemical exposure, and growing practices....
Even if they aren’t as beautiful as the blossoms, those leaves are providing the plant with the nutrients it needs to make those hips and flowers. We need them to be present and healthy! We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Figuring out the cause and acting quickly can mean the difference between a rose that recovers and one that meets an untimely end....
There are hundreds of registered hybrids and cultivars already and new ones are coming to the market all the time. Countless unregistered beauties are hanging out in the backyards of passionate rosarians across the world as well, just waiting to be discovered. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Consider ‘Perle d’Or,’ a pretty pink and cream flower that was bred in the mid-1800s....
I planted the leafy green in my vegetable garden last summer and was surprised by how quickly and easily it grew. If you’ve never tried to grow arugula, Eruca vesicaria, now’s the perfect time to start. You can grow it in your yard, or even indoors. For complete instructions, check out our guide to growing and caring for arugula. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
Those who grow tree philodendrons indoors as houseplants don’t have this carefree option. If you want yours to keep growing bigger, you’ll need to repot it when it gets too large for its container, usually every two years or so. But first, it’s important to note that some indoor gardeners may not want to give their tree philodendrons more room to grow. If you’re happy with the size of your plant already, you can keep it from growing bigger by trimming its roots and repotting in its existing container....
Easy to grow, they require minimal care during the summer, but as an annual, these colorful plants are not suited to the cold temperatures of winter. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Plant Hardiness Zones To determine if your nasturtiums can survive the winter out in the garden, take a look at your USDA Plant Hardiness Zone....
We at Gardener’s Path provide a number of natural control methods to use against this voracious pest – and if necessary, tips on how to use insecticides as well. Although not discovered until 1811, Colorado potato beetles quickly spread from the Rocky Mountains to the East Coast by 1874, and reached Europe a few years later. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
There are nine species and numerous cultivars for an array of color, height, and style options. Perhaps best known is the purple coneflower, Echinacea purpurea. The blossoms have protruding center disks that attract beneficial pollinators galore throughout the growing season, and foraging songbirds like goldfinches feast on the seeds at season’s end. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
They buzz around your head, they sit on your food and crawl into your drink, and they may sting. But they can also be valuable beneficial insects to have prowling around your garden – if they don’t make a home out of your house, or become a hazard for your family, that is. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
Suitable for outdoor cultivation in USDA Hardiness Zones 9-11, the flowers can be forced to bloom indoors and are a popular addition to winter holiday decor. Amaryllis can be propagated by the home gardener in a three ways: separating offsets, dividing bulbs, and growing from seed. 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’ll cover:...
It is an herbaceous perennial that blooms from spring to summer in USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 9. 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 Columbine Flowers? Sometimes called Granny’s bonnet or crowfoot, Aquilegia is native to the northeast regions of the United States and Canada. In addition to these native species, there are introduced species from Europe that are also available to the home gardener, as well as sought-after hybrids that have been cultivated to offer enhancements such as a varied color palette, exceptional hardiness, and impressive heights....
This botanical genus is pretty much a one-stop shop of trees, shrubs, and vines, both deciduous and evergreen. You could fill a landscape with nothing but Euonymus if you wanted to, and it would still end up looking pretty neat. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. And it goes without saying that they’re beautiful....
All it takes is a dedicated space, the right nutrients, and lots of sunshine. And if you’ve heard of gardeners feeding milk to their pumpkin in order to make it grow to enormous proportions – stay tuned to find out whether this method works or not. Be forewarned that the giant pumpkin growing industry is fiercely competitive, thanks in part to the potential a giant beast of a gourd has to rake in lots of cash....
Finding truly sustainable, healthy, and cost-effective solutions can sometimes be frustrating. But what if I told you there is a way to make your own completely natural fertilizer at home using comfrey plants from your own garden? We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. See detailed information on how to grow and harvest comfrey here....
But they are fussy about soil conditions and need a fast-draining blend to ensure healthy, vibrant growth. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. They have shallow roots designed to quickly absorb short pulses of water from the brief but intense rains and flash floods common to their native desert surroundings. They’re not built to slowly take up excess moisture....
Think geraniums, violets, marigolds, and of course, petunias. It’s hard to imagine a trip to the nursery in the spring without picking up a hanging basket (or three) filled with vibrant bloomers. It’s also a reliable mark of the coming winter when we gather up those hanging baskets and toss their contents into the trash or the compost bin. What many gardeners don’t realize is that petunias are technically perennials....
