In the Garden

Plant These 7 Florida Natives Now and Your Yard Feeds Robins and Warblers All Winter

Florida Gardening

Plant These 7 Florida Natives Now and Your Yard Feeds Robins and Warblers All Winter

A winter yard can look green and still leave birds with little to eat. Florida native plants offer fruit, insects, and shelter that help visiting…

By Aria Moore F · Oct 30, 2026

Why Orchid Buds Drop Before Opening: Is Watering to Blame?

Ethan Brooks · Oct 30

Florida Gardening

8 Florida Natives That Replace Your Boxwood Edging and Never Brown Out After a Cold Snap

Aria Moore F · Oct 30

Why Your California Lime Tree Keeps Giving You a Handful of Fruit, and the One Change That Fixes It

John Miller CA · Oct 30

From the Garden

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Swap Your Florida Vinyl Fence Line for These 8 Native Shrubs That Never Warp in the Heat

Florida Gardening

Swap Your Florida Vinyl Fence Line for These 8 Native Shrubs That Never Warp in the Heat

A bright white fence can look tired fast under Florida’s sun, but a living border brings shade, movement, and birds to the same space. Native…

By Aria Moore F · Oct 30

Florida Gardening

Skip the Annual Impatiens: These 8 Florida Natives Keep Shady Beds Blooming All Winter

By Aria Moore F · Oct 30

These Everyday California Yard Habits Are Quietly Inviting Skunks to Dig Up Your Lawn Every Night

By John Miller CA · Oct 30

Could a Heater Vent Be Behind Your Christmas Cactus Dropping Its Buds?

By Ethan Brooks · Oct 30

Which North Carolina Trees You Should Prune This Winter and Which Ones to Leave Alone Until Spring

By Jasmine Hughes · Oct 30

In Bloom

What's thriving right now.

Texas Bermuda Grass Fall Care: When to Fertilize, Mow, and Water Before Dormancy

Texas Gardening

Texas Bermuda Grass Fall Care: When to Fertilize, Mow, and Water Before Dormancy

By Ella Brown T

Your amaryllis bulb sits leafy and bloomless every December because it never got its fall rest, and here’s how to give it one now

Your amaryllis bulb sits leafy and bloomless every December because it never got its fall rest, and here’s how to give it one now

By Ethan Brooks

Your fall lettuce bolts and turns bitter after a warm November spell, and shade cloth saves the rest of the bed

Your fall lettuce bolts and turns bitter after a warm November spell, and shade cloth saves the rest of the bed

By Ethan Brooks

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Can Your California Neighbor Make You Cut Back a Hedge That Sits Entirely on Your Side?

Can Your California Neighbor Make You Cut Back a Hedge That Sits Entirely on Your Side?

By John Miller CA

Potted Rosemary Gray and Brittle After a Cold Night? Check for Cold Injury

Potted Rosemary Gray and Brittle After a Cold Night? Check for Cold Injury

By Ethan Brooks

Should North Carolina Gardeners Still Plant Trees This Fall After Such a Long Drought?

Should North Carolina Gardeners Still Plant Trees This Fall After Such a Long Drought?

By Jasmine Hughes

How To Adjust Your California Avocado Tree’s Watering as Fall Weather Changes

How To Adjust Your California Avocado Tree’s Watering as Fall Weather Changes

By John Miller CA

These White Perennials Come Back in Your Texas Yard Every Year Through Heat and Drought

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Texas Gardening

These White Perennials Come Back in Your Texas Yard Every Year Through Heat and Drought

Texas summers can turn a pretty flower bed into a crispy mess by July. The good news is that some white-blooming perennials shrug off triple-digit...

By Ella Brown T · Oct 30, 2026

The Potting Shed

What Those Curled, Silver-Streaked Leaves on Your California Lemon Tree Are Really Telling You This Fall

What Those Curled, Silver-Streaked Leaves on Your California Lemon Tree Are Really Telling You This Fall

Overwintered lettuce in a cold frame wilts on sunny afternoons because you forgot to crack the lid

Why Christmas Cactus Buds Drop: Check Moisture and Changing Conditions

Multiflora Rose in North Carolina: A Potential Host of Rose Rosette Disease

Multiflora Rose in North Carolina: A Potential Host of Rose Rosette Disease

Florida Gardening

Your Florida Hibiscus Needs This One Quick Step Before the First Chilly Night Hits

Rosemary Near a California Home: A Plant to Reconsider in Fire Country

The Meaning Behind a Flock of Cedar Waxwings Dropping Into Your Central Texas Yard

Texas Gardening

The Meaning Behind a Flock of Cedar Waxwings Dropping Into Your Central Texas Yard

Selective harvesting and covering the planting can extend Swiss chard harvests in suitable winter conditions

A quarter-turn may reduce splitting risk for a mature cabbage head that is still intact, but a cracked head needs harvesting

The Drought-Proof Fruit Tree North Carolina Gardeners Keep Overlooking, and It Fruits Every Year Anyway

The Drought-Proof Fruit Tree North Carolina Gardeners Keep Overlooking, and It Fruits Every Year Anyway

Texas Gardening

Texas’s Strangest Native Fruit Is Still Hanging on Trees This Fall, and Here’s Why It’s Worth Growing

Your potted citrus tree drops half its leaves right after you bring it indoors, and a sunnier spot with less water stops it

These Native Plants Hold North Carolina Slopes Together When Heavy Rain Starts Washing Your Yard Away

These Native Plants Hold North Carolina Slopes Together When Heavy Rain Starts Washing Your Yard Away

Texas Gardening

How to Choose an Evergreen Privacy Screen in Central Texas: Yaupon Holly, Eastern Redcedar, and Arborvitae

Got a lawn full of fallen leaves? Mowing them into the grass feeds it better than raking

Field Notes

Pansies or Violas: The One That Actually Blooms Through a North Carolina Cold Snap

Pansies or Violas: The One That Actually Blooms Through a North Carolina Cold Snap

A January morning in Raleigh can dip into the teens, and by lunch your porch pots tell you which flowers...

By Jasmine Hughes on Oct 30

Gulf Muhly Brings Pink Clouds to Central Texas Yards in Fall, and Here’s How to Plant One

Texas Gardening

Gulf Muhly Brings Pink Clouds to Central Texas Yards in Fall, and Here’s How to Plant One

Drive through a Central Texas neighborhood in the fall and you may spot soft pink clouds floating above a clump...

By Ella Brown T on Oct 30

Brown, Crispy Hydrangea Leaves This Fall: What They Mean and When Watering Helps

Brown, Crispy Hydrangea Leaves This Fall: What They Mean and When Watering Helps

Walk out to your yard in fall and your hydrangea may look like it gave up overnight. Crispy brown leaves...

By Ethan Brooks on Oct 30

Your fall tomato seedlings for next spring? No: your leftover potting mix grows fungus gnats indoors unless you bake it first

Your fall tomato seedlings for next spring? No: your leftover potting mix grows fungus gnats indoors unless you bake it first

Tiny black flies hovering over a tray of tomato seedlings can ruin a gardener’s mood fast. Old potting mix gets...

By Ethan Brooks on Oct 30

Harvest Fall Collards from the Bottom Up to Keep the Leaves Coming

Harvest Fall Collards from the Bottom Up to Keep the Leaves Coming

A healthy collard plant can feed you for weeks, but only if you pick it the right way. Grabbing leaves...

By Ethan Brooks on Oct 30

Coral Honeysuckle on a Florida Trellis Can Offer Nectar That May Attract Hummingbirds

Florida Gardening

Coral Honeysuckle on a Florida Trellis Can Offer Nectar That May Attract Hummingbirds

A red-orange trumpet flower hanging from a sunny fence is hard to miss, and hummingbirds tend to notice it too....

By Aria Moore F on Oct 30