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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
A forsythia bush rarely fails, yet many bloom less every year. Learn when to plant, how to prune at the right time, and why yours may not flower.
Forget-me-nots paint the spring garden true blue, but their eager self-seeding can turn weedy. Learn to grow, control, and pair Myosotis with bulbs.
Four o clock flowers open in the late afternoon with fragrant, multicolored trumpet blooms. Learn how to plant, grow, and overwinter this easy heirloom.
Flower types make more sense sorted by life cycle, bloom season, sun or shade, and use – cut flowers, pollinators, containers – with examples in each group.
A fig tree is one of the easiest fruit trees to grow. Learn to plant, water, prune, overwinter, and harvest figs, plus why a tree will not fruit.