Frost protection tips for your plants
Learn helpful frost protection tips that can help protect your plants in a fall or early spring frost – preparation is a key to success!
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Winter Bird Care Tips: Here’s how to keep your backyard flock safer
Winter bird care is more important than summertime feeding. Read why your feathered friends will undoubtedly appreciate your kindness.
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Carolina Chickadees: A southeastern U.S. native bird
Carolina Chickadees are a non-migrating, year-round resident bird in North Carolina. Learn about the antics of this feathered friend.
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Coneflowers: A comprehensive guide to echinacea
Coneflowers (Latin: echinacea) can benefit your landscape design and offer healthful benefits. Read our growing and care guide to learn how.
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Tulips: Planting and care guide for spring color
Tulips are an all-time springtime favorite – but they require fall planting. Read this ultimate guide to growing and caring for them.
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Bradford Pear Trees: Why you should avoid planting them
Bradford Pear trees may be lovely in the springtime. But they are not a North American species – here’s why you should avoid them.
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Landscaping Fabric: What are the cons?
Landscaping fabric is well-loved for its ability to supress weeds. But it’s also worth knowing the downsides to weed control fabric.
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10 North American native species trees to plant
North American native species trees offer beauty and need little care – and protect local pollinators and mammals. Learn our ten favorites.
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Red Spider Lily: A unique addition to your landscape
Learn about a unique, red flower that blooms in the late summer or early fall – the red spider lily, Lycoris radiata. It is so gorgeous!
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Compost leaves this fall for natural fertilizer next year
Read why you might want to try to compost leaves instead of trashing them this fall – and learn how to make a wonderful natural fertilizer.
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Container Gardening: Getting started guide and the best food plants to try
Container gardening is one of the best ways to grow robust flowers, vegetables, and herbs. Read this guide to learn how you can succeed.
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Carrots: How to grow them in the ground or containers
Carrots are a super popular, tasty veggie that you can grow quickly and easily in the ground, deep pots, or growing bags. Here’s how.
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Snow Peas: A planting and care guide
Snow peas are an easy-growing, delicious, nutritious plant to grow in a cool season garden (spring or fall). Here’s how to do it.
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Butterfly Bush: A colorful, pollinator-attracting perennial shrub
The butterfly bush, known scientifically as Buddleja (or Buddleia) is a colorful, low-care perennial shrub that will draw healthy pollinators your yard.
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Evergreen Shrubs: 10 gorgeous options for year-round foliage
Evergreen shrubs are an excellent way to bring color to your landscape design all year long. Check out our ten favorite picks to try.
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