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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.

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Learn When and How to Prune, Propagate Forsythia

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New Knock Out Roses

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Flowering Trees for Your Front Yard

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Growing Great Chrysanthemums

Can Geraniums Grow Indoors

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Quick and Easy Fall Flower Bed Ideas

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10 AMAZING Expert Tips for Planting Tulips

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Pumpkins in the pumpkin patch

October Gardening: Tasks and Tips

October is the time of year for pumpkins, squash, scrunching through piles of fall leaves, and enjoying the last of the lovely weather before winter sets in. Here in Virginia, October can go either way — sometimes it stays warm, and sometimes the first frosts move in and finish off the summer vegetables. At this…

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A head of bok choy growing in my garden.

How to Grow Bok Choy

I learned how to grow bok choy through trial and error. Last fall, I noticed some beautiful heads of Chinese cabbage (napa cabbage) at our local farmer’s market. When I asked the proprietor where it was grown, I found it was grown not five miles from my house! Well, that means I could grow all…

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A bench with a zinc pail filled with apples. On the bench, squash, apples, and gardening tools

September Gardening: Tasks & Tips

Fall is the time for mums, for pumpkins, and another round of pansies — for soft golden twilights and leaves crunching underfoot. September is the last month here in zones 6 and 7 when the garden is still lush and full. We’re harvesting the last of the tomatoes here at Seven Oaks, my farm near…

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An assassin bug, blending into the roadway

Assassin Bugs – Scary Looking, But Beneficial Insects

We meet the strangest neighbors while walking the dog. This assassin bug was strolling across the pavement on a hot summer’s evening when we walked our dog. At first, I thought it was a wolf spider, but the leg arrangement, plus the narrower body, made me decide to snap a picture and use Google Lens…

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