February Garden Tips: Love and Longevity
This month, assess your yard with an eye towards making it easy to care for in the coming years.
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January Garden Tips: Turning a New Leaf
This month in your home landscape, start asparagus, plant perennial Mediterranean herbs and add in colorful shrubs
December Garden Tips: Happy Holly-Day
This month, look to your yard for festive, all-natural decor, consider a non-traditional Christmas tree and tend to your poinsettias
Fertile Soil: A Layered Garden on a Former Tobacco Farm
Frances and Barrett Cain have turned their barren land into an oasis of beautiful plantings that they love to share with others
Beech Grove: A Lush Native Garden
Jay and Kim Yourch grow plants from both the coastal plain and mountain regions of North Carolina in their North Hills garden
September Garden Tips: Plant & Plan
This month, check in with your roses, evaluate and plan for next summer and start planting your fall vegetables
August Garden Tips: Tasty Rewards
This month, take advantage of fig season and get to work starting fall veggies and plan transition-season pollinators.
July Garden Tips: The Dog Days
This steamy month, up your watering game, welcome butterflies, harvest your crops and deadhead those summer blooms.
May Garden Tips: Hello Color!
This month, plant brilliant flowers, start your summer veggies and assess your yard as we welcome a warming season
Another World at Juniper Level Botanic Garden
Tony Avent and his late wife, Michelle, created a vast, plant-filled wonderland in Raleigh that’s open to the public several times a year
February Garden Tips: Winter Life
On your checklist this month: prune woody shrubs, feed your feathered friends and consider adding camellias to your plot.
January Garden Tips: Winter Color
Take advantage of warmer days to plant bulbs and note what’s in bloom during this otherwise cold, dark season.
Sharing Nature’s Bounty
Jenn and Andy Sandman’s sustainable front-yard vegetable garden is a welcoming space for neighbors, both human and wild.
July Garden Tips: Beat the Heat
This month, take a pause from yard work as you reassess your grass cutting practices and enjoy the wildlife summer flowers attract.