
Gardening
Grow and maintain a thriving garden with tips on soil prep, planting, pruning, and seasonal care.
All About Mulch: Types, Benefits, and Application Tips
Discover everything you need to know about mulch, from the different types available to the benefits it offers your garden.
Low-Maintenance Fruit Trees To Grow in Your Yard
Realize your dream of growing your own fresh fruit at home, whether you have acres of land or a pot on a balcony.
All About Growing Echinacea
Ask This Old House Landscape Contractor Jenn Nawada explains how to identify and care for echinaceas. She also shares a variety of ways to incorporate them in a garden.
How to Maintain Bypass Pruners
Ask This Old House Landscape Contractor Jenn Nawada explains what should be done to maintain a set of bypass pruners and why it matters.
How To Build a Space-Saving 3-Tiered Planter
This Old House DIY Expert and House One Editor Jenn Largesse shows how to build a tiered planter using rot-resistant lumber.
Epsom Salt in the Garden: Benefits, Uses, and Precautions
Does Epsom salt really help your plants? Explore the potential benefits, risks, and how to use Epsom salt in your garden effectively.
All About Arborvitaes
Arborvitae trees are a dynamic and hardy addition to your backyard, creating privacy screens, wind breaks, and overall lusciousness.
Pro Tips to Get Your House Ready for Warmer Weather
Spring is here, so it’s time to prime the house and garden for the warm-weather months ahead. Read on for tips on how to get everything ready for the summer.
9 Best Perennial Shade Plants
There are plenty of beautiful plants that don’t need direct sunlight to thrive. The best perennial shade plants for your yard fit not only the climate but also the look and feel that you want for your yard or garden.
Best Garden Rakes of 2024 (Tested and Ranked)
In this comprehensive review and buying guide, our team tests and ranks today's best garden rakes to help you find the perfect fit.
How To Clean Up and Expand a Garden
An overgrown garden can look disheveled and unkempt. Here's how to transform yours into a beautiful outdoor oasis.
How to Get Squirrel-Proof Bulb Plantings
Few sights can make your heart sink like watching the spring-flowering bulbs you just planted become food for four-legged foragers. Read these tips to keep squirrels from eating your freshly planted bulbs.
Everything You Need to Know About Willow Hybrid Trees
Hybrid willow trees are exceptionally fast-growing, perfect for giving you the lush, living privacy screen you want in just a few years.
Everything You Need to Know About Burning Bush
Burning bush shrubs have a bold, fiery scarlet hue throughout the fall, making either a bold statement as a specimen plant or a stunning hedge or privacy screen.
Everything You Need to Know About Limelight Hydrangea Trees
Limelight hydrangea trees produce prolific, enormous, pale green blooms that turn cream or pink as summer turns into fall.
Everything You Need to Know About Emperor Japanese Maple Trees
Emperor Japanese Maple trees are a compact, cold-hardy variety that put on a brilliant display of dazzling red flowers for three seasons.
Everything You Need to Know About Bloodgood Japanese Maple Trees
Bloodgood Japanese maple trees reveal brilliant, red foliage for three seasons of the year.
Everything You Need to Know About Spartan Juniper Trees
Spartan juniper trees make for low-maintenance and drought-tolerant privacy screens that stay vibrant green year-round.
A Guide to Nellie Stevens Holly
Nellie Stevens holly is an adaptable shrub that can survive under a wide range of conditions, from sun to shade, acidic soil to alkaline soil, and water to no water. Read this guide to learn how you can grow and maintain this evergreen, low-maintenance shrub.
Everything You Need to Know About Owari Mandarin Trees
Owari Mandarin trees are cold-hardy orange trees that produce juicy, easy-to-peel, seedless fruit throughout the holiday season.
Everything You Need to Know About Superior Hybrid Poplar Trees
Superior hybrid poplar trees are a popular hardy, low-maintenance option for fast-growing shade trees or privacy screens with visual interest in the fall.
Everything You Need to Know About 5-in-1 Apple Trees
You only need one 5-in-1 apple tree to reap a large harvest of five different apples.
Everything You Need to Know About Endless Summer Hydrangeas
Endless Summer Hydrangeas live up to their name, blooming massive pink or blue mophead flowers on both old and new wood all summer long.
Everything You Need to Know About Everbearing Mulberry Trees
Everbearing mulberry trees yield abundant crops of delicious mulberries in just a few years, perfect for snacking, baking, and more.
Everything You Need to Know About Lavender Rhododendrons
Lavender rhododendrons make a striking statement with their deep lilac bell-shaped blooms in spring and their leathery evergreen foliage that lasts year-round.
Everything You Need to Know About Jane Magnolia Trees
Jane Magnolia trees are vigorous, blooming massive colorful flowers even in cold climates.
Everything You Need to Know About Stella Cherry Trees
Convenient and elegant, Stella cherry trees self-pollinate to yield juicy, delicious dark red fruit.
Everything You Need to Know About Yoshino Cherry Trees
Yoshino cherry trees bloom a fragrant cloud of whitish-pink blossoms earlier in spring than many other cherry varieties.
Everything You Need to Know About Clementine Trees
Clementine trees bear an abundance of juicy, nearly seedless oranges with just a hint of acid.
Everything You Need to Know About Windmill Palm Trees
Windmill palm trees can add a taste of the tropics to your garden even in a temperate climate like Washington state.
Everything You Need to Know About Pink Weeping Cherry Trees
Pink weeping cherry trees are not only stunning and elegant ornamentals—they are also exceptionally low-maintenance and hardy.
Everything You Need to Know About Bing Cherry Trees
Bing cherry trees are the gold standard of dark sweet cherries.