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Florida The Native Florida Shrub Replacing The Roach-Friendly Foundation Plants Around Homes
You pull a dead frond off the areca palm wedged against your front wall, and something skitters out fast. It’s a familiar Florida moment, and it…
Florida The Florida Native Plants That Bring Gopher Tortoises In And The Legal Weight That Follows
Step outside on a warm Florida morning and you might spot a slow, deliberate visitor crossing your yard, a gopher tortoise heading…
Texas What To Do With Texas Esperanza Right Now For Yellow Blooms Into October
Step outside on a late August morning and your esperanza looks like it has given up on flowers. The green pods are…
Pennsylvania This Pennsylvania Tick Hides In Fall Leaf Piles Long After You Think Tick Season Ended
Most Pennsylvania homeowners figure that once the air turns cold and the leaves start falling, tick season is behind them. That assumption…
Gardening tips You Can Weave A Living Fence That Blocks Wind And Wildlife, But Only If You Plant It Dormant
Push a bundle of willow rods into the ground this winter and you can grow a woven living fence called a fedge,…
Texas The Shrubs Texas Gardeners Plant Along Foundations To Keep Rats Away
Florida 7 Florida Natives That Build A Bat Roost Overhead And Thin The Patio Mosquitoes
Pennsylvania If You See These Sawdust Piles At The Base Of Your Pennsylvania Tree, Act Fast
Gardening tips You Have Never Actually Seen One Sunflower, You Have Seen A Stadium Of 2,000 Flowers Doing Math
Look closely at a sunflower head sometime, and you will notice the center is not smooth at all. It is packed with…
Florida The One Thing Florida Plumeria Owners Skip That Quietly Wrecks The Late-Summer Blooms
Pull back the shears before you touch that plumeria this July. The headline above points at a real risk, but the honest…
Texas The One Native Texas Plant That Supports a Surprising Number of Bee Species In Your Yard
Walk outside on a July morning in Central Texas and there it is, a bright yellow flower with a dark center standing…
Pennsylvania What It Really Means When A Crow Keeps Landing In Your Pennsylvania Yard
You step out on a gray October morning and find the same large black bird standing in your grass, head tilted, watching…
Florida What The Lubber Grasshoppers Crawling Across Your Florida Yard Are Really Telling You
Gardening tips Before You Squash That Daddy Longlegs, It Is Not A Spider And It Is Eating Your Aphids
North Carolina North Carolina Moonflowers Run From The Sun While Everything Else Chases It
Pennsylvania These Pennsylvania Garden Plants Are Quietly Rolling Out A Welcome Mat For Snakes
You walk out to the garden on a warm May morning, coffee in hand, and something long and quick disappears into the…
Texas This Texas Wildflower Blooms Hardest Right When The Rest Of The Yard Gives Up
Walk outside on a hot Texas afternoon in late summer and most of your yard looks like it has waved a white…
Gardening tips You Can Grow A Steady Supply Of Fresh Ginger At Home Even If You Have Never Grown Anything
Fresh ginger sitting in a grocery bag can actually become a living plant on your porch or windowsill, even if you’ve never…
North Carolina The Most Stunning Underrated North Carolina Perennial That Stays In Bloom Longer Than Anything Else
Walk past most North Carolina garden beds in late August and you will find a lot of brown, a lot of tired,…
Texas The Prickly Pear Corner That Turns Your Texas Yard Into Roadrunner Habitat
Florida Beautiful Florida Native Plants That Thrive Where Hydrangeas Always Struggle
Gardening tips You Call It A Junk Thorn Tree And Cut It Down, But Black Locust Posts Outlast Two Fence Holes
Pennsylvania Grow These 8 Pennsylvania Natives Instead Of Astilbe In Your Shady Beds
You step onto the back porch on a mild May morning, coffee steaming, and notice your shady beds just look tired. That…
North Carolina Skip The Fussy Astilbe And Grow These North Carolina Perennials That Take Full Sun And Never Wilt
You drag your patio chair into the hot afternoon sun, hoping for a few quiet minutes, but the wilting astilbe in your…