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The creeping jenny is a great plant to add to your garden or home collection if you want something low-maintenance that looks great. This vibrant plant is known for its bright yellow color and trailing growth habit. Creeping jenny, also known as Lysimachia nummularia, is a low-growing, creeping plant that is perfect for ground cover. … Read more
With its graceful, bamboo-like foliage and showy red berries heavenly bamboo (Nandina domestica) is a popular shrub in many landscapes. However, without proper pruning and trimming heavenly bamboo can soon turn into a leggy, unattractive mess. Follow this guide to learn the right way to trim your heavenly bamboo for the best shape, fullness, and … Read more
This post may contain affiliate links. These help support this website. You are going to love these things to do with rose petals so they don’t go to waste! Rose blooms are so beautiful, but they only last a day or two on your plant. If you cut them off and bring them inside, they … Read more
Q: I have a question I am hoping you can help me with. We have four very large blue spruce in our front yard. The bottom branches have had a lot of bare spots and dead needles for the past few years. We would prefer not having to remove those branches, but it would appear … Read more
A question that thousands of gardeners ask every year is: “Why is my jasmine drying out and losing leaves?” Jasmine is a tropical plant that can be grown indoors or outdoors in warm weather. The plant usually loses leaves because of something in its environment. Jasmine leaves dropping off can be caused by too much … Read more
This is likely what you will need to do before moving plants from seeds to the garden: pot up the baby seedlings. Maybe even twice! Your individual potting up needs and timing will vary. That will depend on the size of the seedling pots you used to begin with, how fast your plants are growing, … Read more
If Hamlet liked growing peas, he would have asked, “To soak or not to soak?” A lot of people say to soak peas before planting them, but does it really help? Will it make the seeds sprout faster? Will it make fruits grow faster? Dry pea seed is extremely wrinkled and soaking in water plumps … Read more
I’ve had my Venus flytrap plant for about a year now and it’s been such a fun and unique houseplant to care for. But every year when winter rolls around I start to get a little worried that my flytrap is dying when its leaves start to turn black and droop. After doing some research … Read more
Maybe you already know that the soil you use for your succulent plants makes a big difference in how healthy they are and how long they live. But do you really know the differences between potting soil and succulent soil?. While many people just use any soil they can find at the plant store, knowing … Read more
Hypericum Plants, commonly known as St. Johns Wort, are attractive perennial plants that have been useful as mass ground covers for many years. St. Johns Wort has come a long way as a plant family. Different types of Hypericum are now thought of as small shrubs that don’t spread out like Hypericum Calycinum does. These … Read more