Select Plants for Your Garden

Anise Hyssop is like Licorice in your Garden

Discover the joy of cultivating Anise Hyssop in your garden. With fragrant leaves, it's perfect for tea, salad dressings, potpourri, and attracts pollinators.

Common Milkweed Host Monarch Butterflies

Milkweed is the only host plant for monarch butterflies. In summer, the female monarch lays eggs on the underside of young leaves.

White Baneberry and its Stunning Doll’s Eyes

A Quick Growing Guide for Miterwort

The Miterwort, Mitella diphylla, is the jewel of the spring shade garden. Consult our Quick Growing guide for this special shade plant.

Growing the Fuss-Free Snowberry

Snowberry is a fuss-free and trouble-free shrub that is quite simple to grow. Read about how the snowberry can enhance gardens.

Smooth Yellow Violet has Delightful Flowers

Smooth yellow violets are highly desirable in woodland gardens or groundcover with delightful flowers. It is easy to grow and care for.

When is My Garlic Ready to harvest?

Discover the best time to harvest garlic, from shoots to scapes, and learn how to maximize bulb size and flavor. Find expert tips from Master Gardener Dale Odorizzi.

Awesome Astilbe – Shade, Sun and Moisture

Even though Astilbe is typically known as a shade perennial, it tolerates full sun, as long as there is enough moisture.

Passion Flower: Growing The Passiflora Vine

Are you growing Passion Flower Vine? Come learn its needs for soil, water, pruning, fertilizer, pests, growing problems, benefits and more.

Grow Your Own Blueberries

Discover how to prepare the perfect soil for blueberries and choose the right plants to grow your own delicious berries at home.

How to Grow Highbush Blueberries

Highbush blueberries are a common fruit grown in home gardens, used both fresh or frozen. Read how to grow and use highbush blueberries.

Yellow Giant Hyssop Quick Growth Guide

Yellow Giant Hyssop grows quickly and Its blooms are thriving nectar for bumblebees, sweat bees, and butterflies. Discover more.

Swamp Rose Mallow

Swamp Rose mallow has exotic, oversized flowers that are very striking. New flowers can open every day from July to September.

Carrots and Their Kin

Learn about the Apiaceae family plants list, known as the carrot family, their flavors, health benefits, and how to grow them in your own garden.

Caring for and Propagating Bluets

Bluets, with their beautiful blooms, are ideal as a ground cover or as a footpath lining. Read how to care for, grow, and propagate bluets

Blue Vervain

Discover the vibrant bloom of blue vervain & explore its traditional uses, habitats, and cultivation methods! Learn about this hardy perennial plant native to North America & its many alternate names, such as Simpler's Joy & Swamp Verben.