Your patio geraniums (aka pelargoniums: the tender types we grow in pots and summer beds, not hardy perennial geraniums) spent all summer living their best life outdoors. Now the nights are getting colder, and reality is crashing the party. If you want to bring the same plants back out next spring, it’s time to prep…
September dahlia care is a little like speed-dating for flowers. You have a short window to make the right calls. Cut the losers fast, or end up with a garden full of regret. These seven jobs are the ones worth doing before frost calls time. Task 1: Deadhead Cones, Protect Marbles The biggest late-season dahlia…
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…