Plant Care & Propagation

Climbing Houseplants: How Growth Habit and Mature Size Change Your Care

Climbing Houseplants: How Growth Habit and Matu...

Understand how climbing houseplants change with height and how to choose supports, pots, light and pruning for twining, aerial-root and scrambling climbers indoors.

Climbing Houseplants: How Growth Habit and Matu...

Understand how climbing houseplants change with height and how to choose supports, pots, light and pruning for twining, aerial-root and scrambling climbers indoors.

Setting Up a Productive In-Ground Border for Year-Round Change

Setting Up a Productive In-Ground Border for Ye...

Learn how to prepare an in-ground garden border that works through every season, from site assessment and soil preparation to planting layers, irrigation and seasonal maintenance.

Setting Up a Productive In-Ground Border for Ye...

Learn how to prepare an in-ground garden border that works through every season, from site assessment and soil preparation to planting layers, irrigation and seasonal maintenance.

Reading a Self-Watering Container: How to Tell Similar-Looking Situations Apart

Reading a Self-Watering Container: How to Tell ...

Learn what to record in a self-watering container to distinguish under-watering, poor wicking, over-wet roots and slow establishment, and choose the right container and mix.

Reading a Self-Watering Container: How to Tell ...

Learn what to record in a self-watering container to distinguish under-watering, poor wicking, over-wet roots and slow establishment, and choose the right container and mix.

Moisture Meters for Garden Corms: What Readings Tell You and What They Miss

Moisture Meters for Garden Corms: What Readings...

Learn how moisture meters work for corm plantings, why readings vary with soil and stage, and how to use trends—not single numbers—to water gladiolus, crocus and other corms well.

Moisture Meters for Garden Corms: What Readings...

Learn how moisture meters work for corm plantings, why readings vary with soil and stage, and how to use trends—not single numbers—to water gladiolus, crocus and other corms well.

In-Ground Planting: Observe First, Then Prepare and Plant

In-Ground Planting: Observe First, Then Prepare...

Learn how to observe light, drainage and soil before preparing an in-ground garden bed, then follow a practical clearing, soil improvement and planting sequence.

In-Ground Planting: Observe First, Then Prepare...

Learn how to observe light, drainage and soil before preparing an in-ground garden bed, then follow a practical clearing, soil improvement and planting sequence.

Young Fruit Trees: Choose for This Year's Shape or the Years Ahead

Young Fruit Trees: Choose for This Year's Shape...

How to choose a young fruit tree for your space: compare rootstock vigour, training forms, pollination and harvest timing to decide between early use and a lasting tree.

Young Fruit Trees: Choose for This Year's Shape...

How to choose a young fruit tree for your space: compare rootstock vigour, training forms, pollination and harvest timing to decide between early use and a lasting tree.