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Some flowers look fantastic for two weeks and then quietly disappear. Blanket flowers do the opposite. This sun-loving perennial keeps throwing out fiery red, orange, and yellow blooms through the …
The plants most likely to cause trouble rarely look dangerous at the garden center. They come in tidy pots with glossy tags promising fast growth, easy care, colorful flowers, or …
Weeds love bare soil. When sunlight reaches open ground, new seedlings can appear almost overnight. A spreading groundcover fights back by covering those gaps, shading the soil, and making it …
August is the moment to make free plants from the ones that made your garden look good all summer. Take healthy, non-flowering pieces of new growth, use clean snips, and …
The word “weed” usually means a plant growing where we do not want it, not a plant that has no value. Some of the most common volunteers in lawns, gardens, …
Grow stronger coneflowers with practical advice on sun, soil, watering, pruning, pests, division, and seed heads—plus a quick troubleshooting guide.
Missouri gardens can be a little moody. One week the clay soil is baked hard as a brick. The next week, the low spot by the fence is holding water …
Some flowers act like they need a personal assistant. These are not those flowers. The plants below are the tough ones. They handle heat, missed watering, average soil, and the …
Missouri is full of places that did not exactly die. They were flooded, bought out, bulldozed, moved, poisoned, fenced off, paved over, or quietly outgrown by the next town down …
Deer and rabbits can make an Illinois yard feel like an all-you-can-eat buffet. One night of browsing can chew down fresh growth, nip off flower buds, and leave a border …