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Growing Flowers

Learn all about growing flowers. Grow beautiful annuals and perennials with expert insight from our flower gardening articles. We cover the basics plus advanced gardening tips and landscaping ideas to transform your yard into a backyard paradise. Learn to grow roses, irises, peonies, day lilies, native perennials, and flowers to attract butterflies and pollinators.

Types of Hydrangeas

When My Garden Turns Into a Big, Beautiful Meadow Garden

Simple Container Designs: Petunias

The Ominous Genus Oenothera

Planting Butterfly Weed, Asclepias Tuberosa

Beautiful Container Garden Designs

Container Garden Tips

Iris Care

phlox for butterflies

Plant Phlox for Butterflies

a yellow daffodil flower covered with snow

Do You Need to Protect Daffodils from the Snow?

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The Absolute Easiest Way to Grow Flowers: Carpet Bedding

Avoid Planting Nandina

Butterfly Attracting Perennials

New Butterfly Garden Perennials

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How to Plant Crapemyrtle

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Summer squash

What Can You Make with Summer Squash?

It’s that time of year when everyon asks, “What can I make with summer squash?”. The time when neighbors sneak bags of summer squash onto porches. When farmer’s markets are brimming with yellow and green squash, zucchini, and all manner of Cucurbitaceae, the plant family that gives, and gives, until it can’t give anymore. If…

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A closeup of marshmallow plant flower.

Growing Marshmallow Plant

Growing marshmallow plant has been on my gardening to-do list for quite some time. I’ve read about it in herbal books and grown its cousins in the Malvaceae family from seed. The dark purple mallow plant I have thrives in my little garden by the shed, so I thought, “Why not grow marshmallow there?” I…

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watering can with plants

August in the Garden: Late Summer Delight

August in the Garden: Tasks, Tips, and a Look Ahead to Fall Here in South Central Virginia, August has always felt like “back to school” season. By mid-month, the local schools are back in session, and with two universities in our small town, the stores fill up with dorm supplies and school gear. What a…

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a close up of tulsi, also called holy basil, in bloom

How to Grow Tulsi from Seed

Holy basil, also called tulsi, can be grown from seeds. That, at least, is what everyone told me. I’d read about tulsi (holy basil) in several books about herbal medicine and seen it cited as a good adaptogenic herb. I was excited to grow it, so I ordered seeds. Several years in a row. Each…

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