A lavender plant that rots or refuses to bloom usually needs one fix: lean fast-draining soil, full sun, and almost no water. Here is how to get it right.
Lambs ear gives velvet-soft silver foliage on a drought-tolerant groundcover, but it rots in heat and wet soil. Learn the tricks that keep it thriving.
Lawn aeration relieves the compacted soil that starves grass roots of air, water, and nutrients. Learn the methods, signs you need it, and how to do it.
Kousa dogwood is the disease-resistant alternative to native flowering dogwood, with later blooms, edible red fruit, and good fall color. How to grow it.
A kumquat tree gives you eat-whole golden citrus where oranges would freeze. Learn to pick a sweet or sour variety, plant, water, overwinter, and harvest.
A kwanzan cherry tree gives you clouds of double pink spring blooms with no fruit to clean up. Learn how to plant it, when it flowers, and its main problems.
Kentucky bluegrass gives a dense, soft, blue-green lawn, but its high water and fertilizer needs catch owners off guard. Here is how to grow and care for it.
Kalanchoe stops flowering after its first bloom unless you know the trick. Get full indoor care, watering, the autumn dark-rest reblooming method, and safety.
Kabocha squash tastes flat if you harvest or store it wrong. Learn to grow this sweet Japanese pumpkin from seed, hand-pollinate it, and cure it right.
A juniper tree can be a six-inch ground cover or a 60-foot evergreen, so the wrong form means years of regret. How to identify, plant, and choose one.
The jasmine flower rewards you with intense fragrance when grown right. Learn how to plant, support, prune, and bloom true jasmine indoors and out.
The January birth flower is the carnation and snowdrop. Learn what each color means, the symbolism behind both, and exactly how to grow them in your garden.