How To Make A DIY Mosquito Repellent Planter
Mosquitos love me and I've tried everything to keep them away. Nothing has worked until now. This DIY Mosquito Repellent Planter is the bomb!
How To Kill Grass And Weeds Where You Don't Want
How To Hand Pollinate Tomatoes Grown In Greenhouses
Encourage more of your tomato blossoms to set fruit with these clever ways to hand pollinate your tomato plants. It only takes a second!
How To Give New Life To Worn Out Hanging Baskets & Container Plants!
Are your potted plants struggling? Check out this simple way to give a new life to your worn out hanging baskets & container plants!
Create a Backyard Birdbath Garden!
A birdbath is not just for birds to take a little swim in—use it for so much more!
How to Paint Terra Cotta Pots with Spray Paint
The Birch Cottage shares how to paint terra cotta pots with white spray paint. You can use any color to spray paint terra cotta!
How to Grow Hardy Hibiscus | Gardener’s Path
The vibrant flowers of hibiscus and their tubular stamens are iconic. Learn how to grow hardy hibiscus as far north as Zone 4 in this Gardener’s Path guide.
17 Brilliant Rain Chain Ideas
Incorporating items that are exclusively ornamental, such as paintings and statues, is an important part of decorating your home and garden. However, you can greatly expand your decorating options by adopting a simple philosophy: How can I accomplish a necessary function in an aesthetically pleasing way? Rain chains, decorative alternatives to traditional metal or plastic downspouts, are a fantastic example of what this philosophy looks like in practice. They come in a wide variety of…
Make a tiered planter in five minutes or less! - Living. (full time)
How to make a tiered planter. Great for herbs or strawberries! Ridiculously quick and easy project that takes five minutes or less!
How and Why You Should Trim Impatiens
Trimming back impatiens for a full and bushier display of flowers. Easy step by step guide to cutting back shade loving impatien plants.
How to Grow Hibiscus
When you think of hibiscus, you might think of the exotic, tropical plants that are hardy only in USDA plant hardiness zones 8 through 11, but there are many other types of hibiscus. Most of them are easy-to-grow, long-lived plants.
Top Flowers For a Hummingbird and Butterfly Garden
I have always wanted to have a yard that would become a hummingbird and butterfly garden. But for years, we lived with a perfectly suburban yard that we inherited when we moved into our house.
Find the Tallest Sunflower You'd Like to Grow Here. With this Easy to use Height Guide.
There are more than 70 varieties of sunflower seeds and plants. Annuals, perennials, tall ones, red, orange, purple and dwarf. Here's the best guide I've...
How to Grow a Sunflower in a Pot
Sunflowers are native American plants with many uses. Their oil is used for biodiesel and cooking oil, and their seeds can make tasty snacks. A sunflower also makes a bright and happy addition to any sunny window or balcony. Growing a...