Every October, garden centers roll out their bulb displays and everyone rushes home to jam tulips in the ground the…
Dahlias have been showing off all summer, and if yours are anything like mine, they’re still going strong right now.…
If you’ve walked past a flower bed this week and spotted a cluster of pink or lavender blooms shooting straight…
If you moved your houseplants outside for the summer, congratulations, they probably look amazing right now. Bigger leaves, better color,…
Every October, garden centers roll out their bulb displays and everyone rushes home to jam tulips in the ground the same weekend. I get it, there’s something satisfying about checking a task off the list. But if you plant too early, you’re setting yourself up for leggy, confused sprouts poking up before winter even arrives,…
Dahlias have been showing off all summer, and if yours are anything like mine, they’re still going strong right now. That’s the tricky part. Everything looks fine until one night it isn’t, and a surprise frost turns those gorgeous tubers to mush underground before you even had a chance to save them. Late September is…
If you’ve walked past a flower bed this week and spotted a cluster of pink or lavender blooms shooting straight out of bare dirt, with zero leaves anywhere in sight, you’ve met colchicum. Also called autumn crocus, also (delightfully) called naked ladies, this bulb does the one thing almost no other plant does: it blooms…
If you moved your houseplants outside for the summer, congratulations, they probably look amazing right now. Bigger leaves, better color, that smug “I’ve been on vacation” glow. The problem is that vacation is ending whether they like it or not, and mid-September is exactly when you need to start planning the move back indoors, not…
If your bearded irises bloomed sparse and sad this past spring, or if the clump looks like a tangled mess of woody rhizomes fighting for space, September is basically begging you to fix it. This is the sweet spot window — soil’s still warm enough for roots to establish, but the brutal heat of summer…
Walk into any grocery store, hardware store, or garden center right now and you’ll hit a wall of mums. Rust, burgundy, gold, that weird lavender one nobody asks for but everyone buys anyway. It’s basically the unofficial start of fall decorating season, even though it’s still technically summer and the AC bill proves it. But…
