If you planted a fruit tree or ornamental this year, or you’ve got one that’s still got smooth, thin bark,…
If you’ve ever bought an amaryllis kit in December hoping for a holiday centerpiece and gotten nothing but a sad…
Halloween is five days out, which means in less than a week you’re going to have a slowly collapsing pumpkin…
Every October, millions of homeowners spend a Saturday wrestling leaves into bags, hauling them to the curb, and paying (with…
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…
If you’ve walked past your hydrangea lately and thought “wait, did my blue mophead just turn into a lime popsicle,” you’re not losing it. This happens every year around this time, and it trips people up because it looks like something’s gone wrong. It hasn’t. Your hydrangea is just doing what hydrangeas do when summer…
