
A Beautiful Backyard Makes Outdoor Living Easy Ready to turn your backyard into your new favorite ‘room’? Planting a lush landscape that features a variety of edibles and low-maintenance perennials, like this gorgeous California backyard, is one surefire way. Get more backyard landscaping ideas, below, and keep reading for 30 more ways to make your…

Zooey Deschanel’s hydroponic Lettuce Grow farmstand is the easiest way to grow vegetables in your backyard. It’s highly user-friendly, design-led, and effective. In a consumerist culture, where we want everything more and faster, there is something undeniably appealing about the idea of vegetable gardening. There is a strong allure in the slowness of the process,…

I’ve been living with a 5-foot-5-inch salad-producing machine in my kitchen since June. This smart, indoor vertical hydroponic system, called the Gardyn, grows heaps of fresh, organic greens. We’re talking gourmet salad every day, endless basil and mint, and enough dill to make you feel guilty that you don’t know any recipes that use dill.…

Thereโs a lot to learn about gardening but when it comes to the basics of planting, pruning, and feeding, there are crucial gardening tips for beginners that every gardener should know. You donโt need a degree in horticulture to develop those green fingers, you simply need to know where to start. Luckily, our team of…

Key Takeaways Geraniums and petunias are popular annual plants that thrive in sunny conditions and are easy to maintain.ย Mint is a durable perennial herb that can spread easily, making it great for beginners, especially when contained.ย Sedums and daylilies are resilient perennials that require minimal care and are suited for a variety of garden…

The warmer temperatures of October have come and gone, but autumn in Colorado often extends into November. For avid gardeners, thatโs a bonus. You can still garden well past that. Days may still reach into the 50s and 60s, warming the soil enough to make it possible to stretch the gardening season. While the typical…
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Hydroponic gardening is a practice that opens up so many opportunities for indoor gardeners. Crops and plants that were once tricky to grow indoors are now easy to grow at home thanks to the science of water culture. One of the negatives on the list of pros and cons of hydroponic gardening, however, is it…

Photo: PerennialResource.com 2 / 25 Siberian Iris Plant them in full sun to part shade, and carefree Siberian irises (Iris sibirica) will bloom in early summer. After the flowers finish, don’t remove the leaves. They’ll soak up the sun to power the next season’s blooms and die back naturally. In the meantime, they’ll add texture…