GARDENING

Learn how to plant and take care of every plant in your garden, from trees and shrubs to annual and perennial flowers.

How to Grow and Care for Marigolds

One of the most popular and dependable types of bedding flowers is the marigold (Tagetes spp.). These brightly coloured blooms with fern-like leaves are genuine annuals, meaning they complete their life cycles in a single growing season.

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How to Grow and Care for Aloe Vera

Aloe vera is a wonderful houseplant with prickly, meaty leaves with serrated edges. It is a succulent that is native to hot, dry climates and that holds water in its leaves.

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Growing Daphne Plants In The Garden

Daphnes are highly lovely shrubs that produce white to light pink tubular blooms in the spring or early winter in warm areas, followed by little red berries

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Crocus tommasinianus Planting & Gardening

Crocus are corms or bulbs with long linear leaves that form a lovely, shimmering silver stripe. Large, occasionally perfumed goblet-shaped flowers give modest yet spectacular colour to the front of a border, container

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How to Plant and Grow Roses

The rose is one of the most well-liked flowers in the world. With nearly 100 varieties, this perennial shrub is largely indigenous to North America.

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Planting & Growing Guide For Milky Bellflower (Campanula lactiflora)

From summer to fall, the milky bellflower, Campanula lactiflora 'Prichard's Variety, produces lovely clusters of purple-blue bell-shaped flowers above heart-shaped green leaves.

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Planting & Growing Guide For Berberis darwinii (Darwin’s barberry)

Darwin's barberry (Berberis darwinii) is a shrub that can reach heights of 1.5–3 m and widths of 1.5–3 m. This South American-native broadleaf evergreen shrub belongs to the barberry family. During his Beagle voyage, Charles Darwin took note of this plant.

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Astrantia Growing & Planting Guide

Astrantia (Astrantia major) is a genus of unusual and attractive flowers also known as masterwort. Most gardens do not have this perennial that prefers shade, but they ought to. Western Asia and Europe are the native home of astrantia.

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Planting & Growing Astilbe

Astilbes are saxifrage family members and clump-forming perennials that grow from strong rootstocks. The upright stems have fern-like green foliage and feathery pink, red, purple, or white plumes that extend above the foliage.

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