Shady spots in a yard tend to get one of two treatments: the owner either gives up on them entirely, or fills them with hostas. Both [...]
For most of gardening history, the advice was simple: once a plant dies back in fall, cut it down, rake it up, and start fresh in spr [...]
If you want hummingbirds in your yard, the instinct is to look up a list of plants, buy whatever’s available at the garden cent [...]
You planted milkweed for the monarchs. Then you went outside and found something else eating it — something fuzzy, or bright orange [...]
Black-eyed Susans have a reputation for being tough. They’re easy-to-grow, drought-tolerant, and full of color from midsummer i [...]
The phrase “blooms all summer” does a lot of heavy lifting in plant catalogs, and most of the time it’s doing it di [...]
The honest answer is: usually none. And if that surprises you, you’re not alone — because most of us come to native plant gar [...]
Coneflowers show up on almost every deer-resistant plant list, which gives people the impression they can plant them anywhere and wal [...]
If you have a balcony, a porch, or a paved backyard with no planting beds, this might be the most practical wildlife gardening advice [...]
If you’ve ever tried to help monarch butterflies, you’ve almost certainly been told to plant milkweed. That advice is cor [...]