If I had a dollar for every person who’s messaged me saying their hydrangeas are all leaves and no blooms (sometimes for years) I’d be a trillionaire by now. Then there are those lucky bastards who swear they “do nothing,” yet their hydrangeas are absolutely covered in flowers. So what gives? The truth is, their “nothing”…
Every morning, you might reach for your own little energy boost, whether that’s coffee, a smoothie, or whatever gets you functioning before 9 a.m. Your hydrangeas need nutrients too. When they do need a little help, you can even make a few useful homemade feeds and soil amendments from things you already have around the…
Nothing is more annoying than a Thanksgiving cactus that looks perfectly healthy… and then gives you absolutely nothing when it’s time to bloom. All those green segments, all that waiting, and not a single flower. Rude! The good news? A Thanksgiving cactus can bloom more than once, which means we get a few more chances to…
If you’re anything like me, you pull weeds from the same bare patch one week and somehow they’re back again the next. The quicker a groundcover spreads, the less open soil there is for new weeds to take hold, making those areas much easier to maintain. Or maybe you’re just tired of looking at the…
If your Christmas cactus has been happily growing for 20 years without ever being pruned, well, congratulations… not all of us are blessed with such a cooperative plant. If yours looks great, leave it alone! Some plants clearly have their lives together better than the rest of us. But when yours starts looking overgrown, lopsided, crowded, or just plain…
Perennials are wonderfully reliable, but by September, some of them start looking like they’ve had enough of summer. Spent flowers, floppy stems, yellowing leaves… the garden goes from lush to slightly exhausted surprisingly fast. That doesn’t mean everything needs a dramatic haircut, though. Get the timing right, and they’ll come back next spring looking healthier,…