Want a ginkgo tree without years of foul-smelling fruit? Learn to choose a male cultivar, plant it right, and care for this gold-leafed living fossil.
Ghost peppers (bhut jolokia) hit a million Scoville units and need a long, warm season most gardeners underestimate. Learn to grow and handle them safely.
Gladiolus is an easy summer bulb, yet small mistakes leave you with leaves and no flowers. Learn how to plant, feed, and store corms right.
Healthy garden soil separates struggling plants from thriving ones. Learn what good soil is, how to test yours, which bag to buy, and how to fix clay or sand.
A gardenia rewards you with fragrant blooms, but yellow leaves and bud drop frustrate growers. Learn to plant, water, feed, prune, and fix common problems.
Good gerbera daisy care hinges on three things growers miss – sharp drainage, a crown kept at soil level, and bright light – for blooms all season.
Gazania, the treasure flower, blooms all summer in heat and drought but sulks if overwatered. Here is how to grow it in full sun and whether it comes back.
The fuji apple is the sweetest, crispest, longest-keeping apple you can grow – if you give it the long season and pollination partner it needs. Here is how.
Fuchsia thrives in shade but dies in heat. Learn how to water, feed, pinch, and overwinter it for months of dangling, two-toned blooms.
The foxglove flower brings dramatic spires to shady borders, but its biennial cycle and toxicity trip up beginners. Learn to plant, grow, and keep it going.
Four o clock flowers open in the late afternoon with fragrant, multicolored trumpet blooms. Learn how to plant, grow, and overwinter this easy heirloom.
A four leaf clover is rarer than you think, near 1 in 5,000. Learn what causes the fourth leaflet, how to find and grow one, and how to tell it from Oxalis.