The essentials for living your best life.
The essentials for living your best life.
Turn your backyard into a thriving edible landscape that feeds both your table and the native pollinators your garden depends on. With the right mix of native plants, continuous blooms, and smart habitat choices, you can grow more food while creating a haven for bees, butterflies, and beyond.
Give pollinators a late-season lifeline by planting a native garden filled with asters, goldenrod, sedum, and salvias. These easy-care bloomers keep your landscape colorful into fall while offering bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds the nectar and shelter they need most.
Sunflowers are easy to love and even easier to grow when you know the basics. This guide covers everything from choosing the right variety and planting at the right time to caring for your blooms, protecting them from pests, and harvesting seeds for next season.
Create a butterfly-friendly garden by planting native host and nectar-rich flowers in clusters, with blooms that carry your yard through the whole season. Add sunny shelter, shallow water, and skip harsh pesticides to give butterflies everything they need at every stage of life.
Turn your backyard into a thriving, low-waste oasis that supports your family, local wildlife, and the planet. With simple steps like building healthy soil, conserving water, and growing native and edible plants, you can create a beautiful space that keeps giving back.
Tired of replanting your garden every year? These tough, low-maintenance perennials come back on their own, saving you time, money, and hassle while keeping your garden blooming season after season.
Want to make your lavender even more beautiful and resilient? Pair it with the right companions—like rosemary, thyme, echinacea, and alliums—to boost blooms, attract pollinators, and create a low-maintenance garden that thrives season after season.
Grow towering, vibrant sunflowers without a green thumb! Discover simple tips for choosing the perfect spot, strengthening stalks, encouraging more blooms, protecting plants from pests, and harvesting seeds.
Starting a flower garden is a rewarding way to bring color, life, and fresh blooms to your outdoor space. With a few smart tips on soil, sunlight, planting, and care, you can set your garden up to thrive from the very start.
Wildflowers bring effortless beauty, support pollinators, and help heal the soil—all while thriving with minimal care. Whether you have a full yard or a small balcony, they’re a simple, sustainable way to create a garden that gives back.
Create a garden that stays beautiful through heat, dry spells, and changing seasons with smart planting, healthy soil, and water-wise design. These practical tips will help you build a resilient landscape that thrives with less effort and more natural beauty all year long.
Pollinators are essential to the fruits, vegetables, and nuts we rely on every day, yet their populations are in decline. By making your garden a welcoming haven for bees, butterflies, birds, and more, you can help protect biodiversity and support a more secure food future for everyone.
Attract colorful butterflies to your garden with a simple homemade feeder made from a jar, sponge, and sugar water—or try a fruit-based treat with overripe bananas and honey. Hang it in a sunny spot near flowers, then sit back and enjoy a lively parade of pollinators.
Crocus flowers are an easy way to bring cheerful color to your garden just as winter starts to fade. Learn when to plant, where they thrive, and how to keep them blooming beautifully year after year.
Native plants are a beautiful, low-maintenance way to create a healthier yard that supports birds, butterflies, and other wildlife. With less watering, fewer chemicals, and real benefits for biodiversity, they help your garden thrive while giving back to the environment.
Create a pollinator-friendly garden that bees can’t resist with easy-to-grow blooms like alyssum, zinnias, sunflowers, salvia, and calendula. These colorful favorites offer plenty of nectar and pollen while bringing butterflies, hummingbirds, and more life to your outdoor space.
Want to bring more hummingbirds to your garden? Choose nectar-rich, tubular blooms like bee balm, Turk’s Cap, rosemary, delphinium, and hollyhocks—these colorful favorites will keep hummingbirds coming back for more.
Discover how easy it is to grow anise hyssop, a fragrant, low-maintenance perennial that adds vibrant blooms and attracts beneficial pollinators. From planting and watering to harvesting and culinary uses, these practical tips will help your garden thrive.
Help thirsty bees thrive with a simple, budget-friendly watering station made from a shallow dish, pebbles, and fresh water. Place it in a shaded spot near flowers, and you’ll create a safe pollinator oasis your garden visitors will return to again and again.
Bees pollinate nearly 90% of flowering plants, yet habitat loss, pesticides, and changing agriculture are putting them at risk. Discover simple ways to protect these essential pollinators—from planting bee-friendly flowers to providing safe water and shelter in your garden.
Discover how chives can do more than flavor your meals! Learn which vegetables and flowers benefit from their pest-repelling power, pollinator-attracting blooms, and soil-enriching growth.
Turn your backyard into a thriving edible landscape with perennial cooking herbs that come back year after year. From boosting flavor and pollinators to supporting healthier soil and natural pest control, these easy-care herbs make your garden as useful as it is beautiful.
Discover the best borage companion plants for a healthier, more productive garden. From tomatoes and squash to strawberries and brassicas, borage attracts pollinators, enriches soil, deters pests, and adds beauty—just keep its vigorous self-seeding in check.
Turn dandelions from a lawn nuisance into a nutritious garden treasure! Learn how to grow, harvest, and enjoy their edible leaves, flowers, and roots while creating a pollinator-friendly space.
Transform your garden this fall with 10 stunning flowers—from vibrant mums and pansies to elegant Japanese anemones and pollinator-friendly asters. Cooler temperatures help these beautiful blooms establish strong roots while adding lasting color and charm to your outdoor space.