How to Keep Lantana Blooming All Summer: Heat-Proof Care Tips
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How to Keep Lantana Blooming All Summer: Heat-Proof Care Tips

The air feels like a pizza oven, the crickets are laughing at us, and staring at a non-blooming hunk of lantana foliage can drive a person right to the brink. Let’s fix the (potential) disasters now and get those lantana blooms moving before the July sun completely roasts whatever brain cells we have left. Why…

7 Coreopsis Care Tips For More Blooms And Healthier Plants
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7 Coreopsis Care Tips For More Blooms And Healthier Plants

What do you call a plant that blooms better after you starve it, bake it, and chop it back? Core-op-success. Coreopsis is weirdly easy to ruin by being too nice to it. Let’s fix your bootleg tickseed routine before you compost your wallet, even if my dad jokes are already trash. Tip 1: Starve the…

How To Fertilize Marigolds For Bigger, Brighter Blooms
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How To Fertilize Marigolds For Bigger, Brighter Blooms

The secret to feeding marigolds for bigger blooms? Knowing when not to do it! So before you reach for the fertilizer, here’s when marigolds actually need feeding, and when they’re better off ignored. Marigolds want to get drunk on sunshine, throw out flowers, make seeds, and call it a life. If you feed them too…

9 Full Sun Planter Ideas for Colorful Summer Containers
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9 Full Sun Planter Ideas for Colorful Summer Containers

Nobody remembers a subtle planter. You want some spark on your porch? Then why play it safe with predictable greenery? Load your containers with sun-loving, blindingly bright flower fireworks that can actually handle a long, hot summer. Or as I call it, flowerworks. These combos can be grown as summer annual container plantings across most…

11 Pansy Care Tips For More Blooms In Spring And Fall
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11 Pansy Care Tips For More Blooms In Spring And Fall

Calling someone a pansy makes zero sense. These flowers are tougher than their name suggests, but they still have opinions. I’ve seen them shrug off cold nights that would flatten a tender geranium, then stall out fast when seed pods, heat, or soggy leaves get ignored. So yes, pansies are cool-season garden titans, but if…

14 Flowers That Grow in Poor Soil (And Still Look Amazing)
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14 Flowers That Grow in Poor Soil (And Still Look Amazing)

My yard is basically a poor-soil sampler platter. Spring brings iron-packed, sticky mud. Summer turns it into cracked, thirsty clay. Fall brings back the soggy mineral sponge. Prayers are welcome! And yet, if you can’t change the soil, you might as well plant flowers that love it there, right? Hardy Blooms for Hard Ground If…