A beefsteak tomato gives huge, meaty slices, but its size demands strong support, sucker pruning, and steady water. Here are the best varieties and care.
Pachysandra carpets deep shade where grass fails, but Japanese spurge spreads invasively. Learn planting, watering, shearing, blight control, and the Allegheny spurge option.
A staghorn fern is an epiphytic Platycerium that thrives mounted on a board, not potted. Learn how to mount, soak-water, fertilize, and fix browning fronds.
Tired of stale jarred bay leaves? Grow your own bay laurel for endless fresh and dried leaves, with full care, container, overwintering, and harvesting tips.
Hydroseeding sprays a slurry of seed, mulch, and fertilizer to grow a lawn for less than sod. See how it works, costs, and the watering that decides success.
A fir tree gives you evergreen color all year, but only if you pick the right species. Learn how to identify, choose, plant, and care for fir trees.
Choosing tomato companion plants well means fewer pests and a heavier crop. Here are the best partners grouped by job, plus what to avoid.
The calendula flower (pot marigold) is a cool-season annual with edible orange and yellow petals. Learn to grow, deadhead, and harvest it.
A sapodilla rewards patience with brown-sugar-sweet fruit, but it is frost tender. Learn the zones, sun and drainage, cultivars, watering, and harvesting it needs.
A coconut tree needs the right climate and real patience. Get the USDA zones, dwarf and tall varieties, soil, watering, germination, and harvest timing.
Cordyline rewards you with vivid red, pink, and cream foliage when you get the light and water right. Learn to grow the ti plant indoors and outdoors.
The zebra plant browns and drops leaves at the first slip in care. Here is the light, watering, humidity, and pruning that keep Aphelandra squarrosa in bloom.