Whether you grab them for a specific recipe or pick up a couple so you can have fresh herbs on your windowsill, those little ...

The current houseplant boom has everyone buying plants. As the houseplant industry has grown, the decorative planters ...

I knew it was the right time to write about irises when someone in a local group posted a wheelbarrow full of them with the message: Hi, I’m lifting bearded irises. They’re free, just take them! Mauve ...

In potting mixes, coconut coir helps create a well-draining environment that prevents the soil from becoming too soggy, ...

If you grow houseplants, especially these days, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by all the gadgets, potions and gizmos that you’re told you need. I’ve been keeping houseplants for three decades, and I can ...

If you had to guess how many hydrangeas were sold in the United States in a year, what would you go for? Maybe 100,000. Perhaps half a million. Shall we push it to a million or two? That was close to ...

“Drain any standing water from saucer after watering.” How many times have you, as a houseplant owner, read these instructions for watering a plant? Yup, we get it; plants don’t like to be left ...

I have a hidden greenhouse in my kitchen. Yup. I grow herbs and lettuce and houseplants and all kinds of things in my kitchen all year long. But you can’t see the greenhouse, hence the secret part. My ...

Worm poop! Yup, that’s what we’re talking about here. Worm castings are the byproduct of vermicomposting (composting with worms), and this stuff does amazing things when you stick it in the dirt with ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that once you learn a gardening “golden rule,” you’ll have to quickly unlearn it. Or at the very least, you might need to add some asterisks and exceptions to it ...