I would love to be a houseplant goddess. But the size of my windows and crisp square footage of my indoor space have other plans. Can't say I haven't tried: bird of paradise, philodendron 'Lickety Split' now reclassified as a Thaumatophyllum bipinnatifidum, a variegated rubber...
Does your patio need more green? Got a bright window that's all dressed up, but with nothing to grow? This week on BHG.com, we round up 10 Plants That Grow Surprisingly Well in Containers — from Meyer lemon trees in pots to sidewalk sweet potatoes. Our whiskey barrel water...
Kind of hard to believe we haven’t talked about this yet. About...
It’s great to be back from winter recess. We took a long one this year — saw our families in DC and New York, and today I finish my third (out of five!) residencies at Warren Wilson College, where I’m getting my MFA in fiction...
What colors do you associate most with fall? Here in our subtropical climate, we don’t get the level of fluorescent foliage we did growing up in the Northeast and Midatlantic — like the neon New England landscapes I saw last week while visiting friends in...
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It only occurred to us after we received our wholesale order of 50 air plants that we had no place to put them! I had ordered the lot for my new acrylic air plant habitats (coming soon) — and I guess we got too excited...
To selfie or not to selfie? We don't know; we’d rather take pictures of plants. But it was across Instagram’s sea of selfies that we forged a friendship with a brilliant gardener named Warren Keller, whose photos depict the joy, verve and drama of gardening and plant...
Whenever one of our favorite “plant guys” sends us an email saying a crop is at its best and most abundant and that we should come see it, we drop what we’re doing and head for the action. That’s exactly what we did when Kalim...
Happy Autumn Equinox! It’s hard to believe that we launched just one equinox ago on the cusp of spring — and that the tulips and kumquats of March have been replaced by the blushing apple trees, pickling tips and dahlias on dahlias on dahlias of...