A caladium gives you hand-painted heart-shaped leaves, but only if you plant the tuber eyes-up in warm soil, keep it shaded and humid, and lift before frost.
A bromeliad blooms just once, so the secret is the central cup, the right water, and its pups. Master indoor care, mounting, and the apple-bag rebloom trick.
A healthy brussel sprout plant rewards patience with sweet, frost-kissed buttons. Master timing, feeding, topping, and harvest for a stalk of tight sprouts.
Burning bush lights up fall with intense scarlet foliage, yet it is invasive across much of the US. Learn to plant, prune, and pick a safe alternative.
A bottlebrush tree dazzles with brushy red blooms but stalls without sun and drainage. Learn to plant, water, prune, train, and fix yellow leaves.
Boxwood shrubs give a garden year-round structure, but deep planting, bad pruning, and blight quietly kill them. Learn to plant, prune, and choose them well.
Boysenberries are sweet-tart hybrid brambles too perishable to buy fresh, so grow your own. Learn planting, trellising, the floricane cycle, harvest and care.
The bradford pear was a favorite street tree, but it splits in storms, smells of rotting fish, and turned invasive. Learn why it’s banned and what to plant.
Struggling with a boston fern dropping crispy brown fronds? Learn the light, watering, and humidity it needs, plus how to fix browning and divide the plant.
A blueberry plant can fruit for over 50 years once you fix one thing, acidic soil. Learn to test and adjust pH, pick a variety, plant, water, and prune.
A blueberry bush demands acidic soil, pH 4.5 to 5.5, before anything else. Test and amend with sulfur, match the type to your zone, and plant two varieties.
Blue false indigo gives indigo-blue spring spires for almost no work, yet the deep taproot, slow start, and flopping trip up gardeners. Here is how to grow it.