Mountain laurel rewards the right site with showy spring blooms and evergreen leaves. Learn how to plant, water, prune, and troubleshoot this native shrub.
Many gardeners fear a mulberry tree for its stains and birds, yet it gives sweet fruit you cannot buy and fast shade with almost no care.
The narcissus flower is the easiest spring bulb to grow – plant in fall, leave the foliage to recharge, and these deer-proof daffodils return for decades.
Navel orange trees yield the premier sweet, seedless eating orange, but they are frost-sensitive and ripen only on the tree. Learn to grow and harvest them.
Monkey grass (Liriope) is a tough evergreen groundcover for edging and shade. Learn clumping vs spreading types, planting, the late-winter cutback, and removal.
A money tree is forgiving but rots fast from overwatering. Get the light, watering, pruning, re-braiding, and propagation right, plus fixing yellow leaves.
Morning glory smothers a fence in trumpet blooms in one season, but it self-seeds fast. Learn to plant, support, feed, and deadhead it for all-summer color.
A Meyer lemon tree gives you sweet, thin-skinned lemons at home. Learn the light, watering, pollination, and overwintering tricks that keep one fruiting.
The McIntosh apple is the tart, aromatic fall classic that cooks down into the best applesauce around. Here is how to taste, use, store, and grow it.
The mesquite tree is the desert’s toughest shade tree, but overwatering makes it brittle and storm-prone. Learn to plant, prune, and harvest its pods right.
Mexican sunflower is a fiery annual that blooms until frost and draws monarchs and bees. Learn to grow Tithonia from seed, pinch, and stake.
Mandevilla care is easier than its tropical looks suggest: get the sun, watering, support, and overwintering right for bold blooms until frost.