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Gardening Tips

How Delaying Spring Garden Clean Up Helps Birds

Do you love cleaning your garden in the spring? When temperatures warm up and your plants are ready to bloom, it’s tempting to get everything in order. However, horticulture expert Matt Dursum explains why you should delay spring cleanup for your garden’s resident birds.

Bright pink Chrysanthemum morifolium flowers with yellow centers, layered petals, and dense green foliage.

Gardening Tips

15 Perennials You Should Divide in Spring

With spring comes the prime time to divide certain perennials, including many natives. Whether dividing to expand the colony, restore growth and flowering, or manage size, the benefits bring renewal for those on our list. Garden expert Katherine Rowe reviews our favorite perennials that benefit from division in spring for long-lived performance.

Sprouting Gladiolus hortulanus corms with reddish outer layers and green tips laid out on soil.

Bulbs

When to Plant Gladiolus Bulbs: 7 Planting Tips

Gladiolus bulbs are perfect for gardens with short growing seasons! Plant them in spring for midsummer blooms. With proper preparation and succession planting, you’ll cultivate healthy, gorgeous blooms all summer. Join backyard gardener Jerad Bryant in getting your gladioli in the ground with these seven tips.

A garden bed of gladiolus varieties displays tall flower spikes in purple, yellow, orange, pink, white, and burgundy, rising from sword-shaped green leaves and upright stems.

Flowers

13 Pretty Gladiolus Varieties to Plant This Spring

Are you looking for show-stopping blooms for your cut or perennial garden? It’s hard to beat gladiolus for eye-catching flowers and sturdy stems. In this article, horticulture expert Matt Dursum covers the best gladiolus varieties to plant this spring.

Budget spring container ideas, vibrant purple petunias and delicate white Calibrachoa cascade over the edges of a large decorative garden planter.

Ornamental Gardens

15 Budget-Friendly Spring Container Ideas to Try This Season

Let the spring-inspired creativity flow: It’s time to refresh the collection with container arrangements that meet our growing goals (without diminishing precious earnings). Whether growing edibles or ornamentals, budget-friendly potting designs do the job with a nod to form and function. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe for spring container inspirations that keep the budget focused on growing.

A large pile of thick, knobby roots with pointed ends resting on green grass.

Flowers

7 Causes of Dry and Shriveled Dahlia Tubers

Whether digging up dahlia tubers in the fall or pulling them out of storage in the spring, you never want to find them shriveled, dry, or shrunken. Learn what causes these symptoms to better prevent them in the future. Seasoned grower Jerad Bryant shares the seven most common causes of dry and shriveled dahlias.

Glossy, deep red delicious cherry variety hang in a tight cluster from a slender stem, nestled among vibrant green, serrated leaves with a slightly waxy texture.

Fruits

9 Most Delicious Cherry Varieties to Grow for Fresh Eating

It’s cherry blossom season across the globe, and at home, we can enjoy the delicate blooms, ornamental bark, and shining fruits of bearing trees. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe highlights the tastiest cherry varieties to plant this season for years of sweet rewards.

Clusters of violet flowers with thin petals radiate from golden centers, surrounded by slender green leaves.

Gardening Tips

21 Native Plants for Pollinators in Northwest Gardens

The best plants for pollinators are native species! Honey bees aren’t the only pollinators around—there are hoverflies, specialist bees, and butterflies to consider. Native plant gardener Jerad Bryant shares 21 plants that help your local pollinators with nectar, pollen, and habitat space.