Is there anything lovelier than a shade garden on a warm day? It's hard to beat!
As a homeowner, you maybe wondering how to keep cats out of your yard. Here are 22 simple ways you can keep stray cats from pooping in your yard.
Give your garden some elegant outlines. Use these garden edging ideas to lend character, definition, and texture to your landscaping beds.
It's a beautiful flower bed—and a reservoir for yard and roof runoff
Everything you need to know about building and starting a raised garden bed! This post will help you begin with confidence!
These hardy perennials can thrive in part sun, full sun or shade, high heat or freezing temperatures, and still bloom beautifully every year.
Recreate garden designer Piet Oudolf's planting schemes with 10 tips for selecting flowering perennials and grasses that will create year-round interest in your landscape.
While some people grow determinate tomatoes so that they don’t have to worry about a trellis, anyone who wants to grow an indeterminate variety is going
Paths for slopes are a great way to liven up your garden! Check out these outdoor DIY and front garden ideas!
Five uses for comfrey.
Learn about how to plant, grow and care for lavender! There are many benefits to growing lavender, find out how to properly care for this great plant!
Mark Lane, the UK's first garden designer in a wheelchair and presenter on BBC Gardeners' World, with his top tips for a safe, secure and beautiful garden.
Here's how to get rid of slugs in your garden and yard. 3 ingredients make this homemade chemical free slug tonic. Beer, Yeast and Sugar!
From the beginning, I had this overwhelming feeling that our new farm, which at the time was just a wide-open field, was meant to become a place.
Building a rain garden takes a bit more work than traditional flower beds, but it's not that difficult. Follow these detailed steps to install one yourself.
Did you know that there are plants that repel snakes? If you're one of those people, or you live in an area with a lot of snakes check out this list of snake repellent plants.
Check out these beautiful drought-tolerant perennials for your garden! Low-water perennials are great for saving water during the heat of summer plus they come back year after year!
Living in New England, I do everything I can to keep ticks out of my yard. These 7 ways to keep ticks out of your yard naturally always work well for me.
Learn how to get rid of ground moles with dawn soap and castor oil. This easy recipe will deter moles, voles, gophers and rodents naturally.
These hardy perennials can thrive in part sun, full sun or shade, high heat or freezing temperatures, and still bloom beautifully every year.
Get ahead of the game and prepare your garden now for a vibrant spring by finding the right seeds to sow in August. Our informative guide will walk you through the top 5 seeds to sow in August for a bloom-filled spring. Discover tips on planting and nurturing, and learn about the ecological benefits these plants bring to your garden
Thinking about growing a cutting garden but aren't sure where to start? Here are some cut flower garden "dos and don'ts" for beginners.
Vertical vegetable gardening saves space, helps avoid pests and disease, makes harvesting easier, and adds beauty to your garden.
Whether you want to reduce your grass lawn or replace it, there are lots of options for alternative eco-lawns including wildflowers, clovers, and fescue grass seed mixes.
Having a garden in your home is such a blessing since it could be utilized not only to beautify your outdoor
You can't grow healthy tomato without a tomato trellis or cages. Read this if you need plans and ideas to build a DIY tomato cage.
Enjoy bright and showy blooms! Easier to grow than you may think, this guide covers all the basics to grow ranunculus flowers in your garden.
Want to build a garden trellis that's cheap and easy? These DIY trellis ideas for the garden are quick to make and don't cost much.
Fight garden pests naturally! DIY homemade bug spray for vegetable plants with peppermint oil. Simple recipe & organic methods for a bug-free harvest!
I am excited to share that The National Garden Bureau has chosen the allium as the bulb of the year! They pick one annual, one perennial, one bulb crop and one…
Take a tour of our neighbor-friendly edible landscape.
Learn how to build super easy, fast, and attractive raised garden beds! This is a 30-minute DIY project & is perfect for growing your own vegetable garden!
Grasshoppers decimate a garden quickly if not controlled. Learn how to kill grasshoppers and prevent them from attacking in this guide by Kevin Espiritu.
Rhododendron is easy to grow from cuttings. Learn how to propagate rhododendron from cuttings, and fill your garden with rhododendron plants.
The crucial first step to designing a beautiful, 4-season landscape that’s as unique as you are… is NOT what you’d expect. Learn beginner landscaping tips for DIY landscapers looking to improve their homes.
If you're planning a raised bed garden for the first time or adding to your existing beds, avoid these 7 mistakes common in raised bed gardening.
The perfect DIY weekend project. This trellis is great for climbing vegetables, grapes and even roses!
Seed-saving annual flowers is easier than you might think. Here are 5 easy plants to collect seeds from this fall for a frugal flower garden next spring.
Lisianthus is a summer staple in my low desert Arizona garden. Learn how to grow lisianthus with these 10 tips.
cheap fence ideas – Are you in need of a fence that doesn’t cost high? Maybe for your yard, or around your yard, or possibly it is a whole border fence? Well, I could recognize that as I have been there myself.