Growing organic? Afraid of pests? Plant these eight flowers, and let the biology start screaming. smell strange, leak useful compounds, lure in the good bugs, and make pests work harder for lunch. Your chatty neighbor may also suffer minor fence-related discouragement. Now for the floral offenders, and what they actually do once they’re in the…
Admit it. You want a yard that looks like a magazine cover, but you also have a life. Or you’re trying to get one. What’s stopping you? Probably your lack of boundaries, and I mean the garden kind. Skip a couple of overpriced lattes with boring people, and you’ve saved enough money to start turning…
I know you’re afraid of flowers behaving like toddlers in a ball pit. They’re cute for five minutes, max. Then there’s chaos everywhere, and your border looks like it gave up. If you want a garden border that stays within the lines, you just need plants with a basic sense of decorum. If you’re trying…
Dear reader, let me tell you about the time I ate my fence and my neighbor preemptively called an ambulance. Apparently, “grazing on the property line” isn’t a standard hobby, but my homegrown chokeberry tasted better than his judgment. It also looked far prettier than any wooden barrier ever could. Why settle for a plain…
My mower belongs in a museum, not a garage. And yet, until a few years ago, I really thought it would come in handy one day. It didn’t. I was given a packet of teeny-tiny seeds that changed my little landscape… and my weekend routine. No Mow Struggle Ever I see most of my neighbors…
Living the dream involves eating your way through the yard. Flowers are lovely, sure, but fruit is better. instead of planting another plain green barrier, why not grow something that feeds you back? Brace yourself, an upgrade is coming. Your garden will never look (or taste) the same. 14 Hedges That Pays You Back Ready…