Ask the Plant Lady: Helping Branches Bloom
and Bud Indoors This Winter.
Plants 101: The Secret of Growing Landscape
Plants from Cuttings.
Ask the Plant Lady: What Plants Are Ideal
for Beginners?
Creating a 'Wizard of Oz' Theme Garden: Judith
Reed, 43, of Chittenango, New York talks about what gardening has taught
her and her future plans for creating a Wizard of Oz theme garden (she lives
in author's L. Frank Baum's birthplace) and a secret garden with her eight-year
old daughter.
Ask the Plant Lady: How Can I Keep My Christmas
Begonia Blooming Through Winter?
Orchids Made Her Feel God's Love: Barbara
Andrewjeski, 43, of Mosinee Wisconsin, was inspired to start gardening while
driving by thousands of orchids on her way to visit her husband in the hospital.
Today, she has more than 2000 plants. Read how gardening is a spiritual endeavor
for her. "I was so overcome that I sat down between the benches of plants
and wept."
Caring For Your House Plants: How to make
a self-watering system for your house plants.
Living Off the Land: Learn how to grow and
forage edible and medicinal plants, herbs and wildflowers. Read our interview
with Jim Meuinck, author of "Basic Essentials: Edible Wild Plants & Useful
Herbs." Jim has advice on how to find and grow plants that can improve your
health.
Plants That Attract Butterflies: What plants
will bring butterflies to your home? Robyn Wilkey our expert plant columnist,
has great advice for plant lovers.
Meet Amy Mueller, 26 of Wisconsin, says her
garden gives her a chance to relax after a long day at work, "I spend my
days at work thinking, in the garden, I don't have to."
Ask the Plant Lady: Our expert plant columnist
Robyn Wilkey has advice on growing periwinkles.
Keeping Transplants Alive: Tips on keeping
transplanted shrubs and trees healthy.
Ask the Plant Lady: Robyn Wilkey, our expert
plant columnist, has advice on preserving roses and cut flowers.
June Gardening Bonanza: Our expert gardening
columnist Dawn Neff reflects on gardening in June and celebrating Midsummer's
Eve on the 24th. She also has advice on growing roses and making rose butter,
rose tea and rosebud wreaths.
Conversations With Gardeners: Bev Brown, of
Virginia, has been gardening for 40 years. She says gardening has taught
her "how much we are a part of nature, we don't control it we merely work
within it and we are just a little tiny piece of a super large puzzle."
Gardening Fun: Dawn Neff, our expert gardening
columnist, has lots of tips on how to celebrate your garden, from how to
give your roses a boost to keeping Japanese beetles away from your beloved
plants to designing a special sanctuary in your backyard for birds, butterflies
and other small creatures.
Conversations with Gardeners: Ann Cole, 37, of
Newtown, Pennsylvania, says she feels a deep and spiritual connection to
her deceased parents when she gardens.
Jennifer J.S. Stengle, one of our expert plant
columnists, has advice on getting your soil ready for the garden.
Summer Garden Advice: Jennifer Stengle, our
expert plant columnist, has advice on how to keep seasonal flowering plants--like
daffodils, tulips, primroses and potted azaleas--healthy and ready for the
summer garden.
The Joys of Gardening: Ranelle Dowdy, 30, of
Hurt, Virginia shares her tips for growing a healthy garden and talks about
how gardening helps her cope with motherhood.
Ready to Celebrate Spring?: Dawn Neff, our expert
gardening columnist, has some fun and inventive ways to celebrate spring.
Ask the Plant Lady: Our expert plant columnist
Robyn Wilkey has advice on caring for Devil's Ivy, also known as Pothos.
How Does Your Garden Grow?: Meet Lynne D'Orsay,
46, of Tampa, Florida, who was raised to be pragmatic, conservative,
down-to-earth, and "disdainful of anyone who pursued any activity that was
not 'useful.'" Learn how gardening allowed parts of herself once suppressed
to flourish.
Thinking About The Summer Garden?: Our expert
plant columnist Jennifer Stengle has advice on getting ready for the summer
garden.
How do you save plants in extreme weather
conditions? Our expert plant columnist Jennifer J.S. Stengle answers
all your plant-related questions.
Talking with Gardeners: Our continuing series
of interviews with gardeners. Meet Phyllis Van Horn, 50, of Niles, Michigan,
who finds that gardening is spiritual in that is parallels the metaphors
of life. "Gardening has taught me that growing takes time and nothing happens
overnight, either constructive or destructive. That sometimes a lot has to
happen quietly inside a person's soul before you see outward growth and
change."
Jennifer J.S. Stengle is one of our expert
plant columnists. This month, she discusses ficus trees.
Meet Our Gardener of the Week: Karen O'Maxfield,
of Hartford, Connecticut.
An interview with Bertha Reppert, author of
Growing Your Herb Business.Learn about how she made her Pensylvania
herb business a success.
Plan a rose tea. Herbal tea tips and
recipes.
"I want to Save The World. Who doesn't? If any of us had the magic wand
that would fix everything, who would hesitate to use it? But the problems
facing us are so complex, it's difficult to know what to do. I haven't found
that magic wand, but I realized that I could sit around thinking and arguing
about the problems I see, or I could do something. I chose gardening."
The Zone...which one are you in? Understand
gardening zones.
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