In our last guide, 12 Fast-Growing Groundcovers That Keep Weeds In Check, everyone fell in love with the dream of a lux pink carpet. But your comments proved reality set in fast: the blooms faded after only a few weeks, bees took over the pool deck, and winter left behind a huge, dull, albeit still…
Bending over to find a hidden cucumber is a great way for millennials to remember they’re not twenty anymore and and spiral into yet another existential crisis. Luckily, for us millennials and anyone who has to live with us, there’s a way to bring those vegetables up to eye level: a cattle panel arch. Done…
Are your summer flowerbeds looking thin lately? Angelonia can fix that, even during the hottest weeks of July. Here is how to fuel the fire. An Annual or Perennial? Check the plastic tag stuck in the nursery pot. If it labels Angelonia a perennial, it isn’t lying, but it is leaving out one brutal detail:…
Tropical hibiscus bud drop is usually a stress response, pure and simple (though pests can cause it too). These plants will give up on perfectly good buds to save their own necks over the smallest change, dropping them onto the patio because the wind blew the wrong way. Among other things. Here’s why those buds…
Clematis vines are essentially primitive machines driven by basic hydraulics and blind panic. You can get far more flowers by leaving yours completely alone until it actually needs feeding, then giving it what it wants at the right time. Now, if only you had a guide… Know Your Clematis Pruning Group Before Feeding Flinging nitrogen…
If I had a dollar for every time a well-meaning neighbor drowned a perfectly good hydrangea in bloom booster chemicals, I’d have a much bigger greenhouse. Let’s set the fertilizer bag down for a second and talk about how to feed these plants before you stress the roots or end up with more leaves than…