While their petals might drop faster than a mic at a comedy show, your tulip leaves are just getting started. If you have questions about cutting them back… that’s serious business, and here come serious answers. Maybe. Why Tulip Leaves Don’t Die When the Flowers Do? Because they’re waiting for their Netflix show to get…
As someone who enjoys garden work and loves seasonal trims, I used to find mid-summer marigold trimming quite fun…until I started messing up and my mistakes became more and more apparent. I’d call that period in my marigold journey a learning curve, and since then, I’ve improved my pruning game a lot. In today’s article,…
I’ve written countless deadheading guides for roses, hydrangeas, and other flowering shrubs, but never one for coneflowers. Realizing that someone might mistakenly prune coneflowers the same way as other flowers, I figured it was time to change that. So here it is: a deadheading guide made specifically for coneflowers. In today’s article, not only will…
If you’ve ever felt personally victimized by a spent peony looking like a deflated balloon, you’re not alone. Welcome to the “what now?” phase of peony parenthood! Should you go at them with shears or just offer a silent prayer? As a fellow gardener, I’ve got a few thoughts on that, so let’s cut through…
Gather ’round, fellow dirt worshippers, and let’s address the elephant in the potting shed. You’ve probably been lured in by dreamy pictures of endless salvia flowers, right? And just when you’re feeling smug about your green thumb, midsummer hits, and suddenly your salvia looks like it’s forgotten its purpose in life. Been there, done that,…
The internet can be a very helpful and confusing place at the same time. I mean…some time ago, I searched up ways to prune my pothos plant, and people just seemed to have complicated the hell out of it. The same is the case with deadheading geraniums or any other plant. In today’s article, I’m…