Pussy willow gives you soft silver catkins every spring. Learn to plant, water, hard-prune for the best stems, dry the catkins, and root cuttings in water.
Mother of thousands sprouts baby plantlets on every leaf, so it grows easily but spreads fast. Master the light, water, soil, and containment it needs.
Wax myrtle is a tough, fast-growing native evergreen for screens and hedges. Learn how to plant, space, prune, and get berries from this salt-tolerant shrub.
A locust tree gives fast shade on tough soil, but black locust and honey locust differ a lot. Learn to tell them apart and which thornless cultivars to plant.
A pistachio tree needs hot dry summers, real winter chill, and both a male and female tree. Get the zones, soil, planting, pollination, and harvest timing.
Rose hips are the fruit your rose makes after blooms fade, but deadheading cuts them off. Learn which roses set the best hips and how to harvest and use them.
Not sure how to dry herbs without losing their flavor? Learn when to harvest, the best method for every herb, and how to store dried herbs for a year.
The rue plant brings tough, blue-green foliage to hot, dry beds, but its phototoxic sap demands care. Here is how to grow Ruta graveolens safely.
Jimson weed is a highly toxic annual that invades disturbed garden soil. Learn how to identify it, remove it safely, and stop its seeds from returning.
A cinnamon tree is a frost-tender tropical you can still grow at home as a container plant. Learn Ceylon versus cassia, indoor care, overwintering, and harvesting bark into quills.
A sundew plant dies fast in tap water and ordinary soil. Learn the mineral-free water, peat-sand mix, light, feeding, and dormancy that keep Drosera thriving.
Root vegetables look easy until you pull a forked, stunted carrot. Learn what counts as a root vegetable and how to grow the major crops well.