Cultivating Knowledge: Tour the Garden of Jim and Stephany Putnam
The Raleigh couple behind gardening advice channel HortTube shares a passion for working with plants and making use of their space
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July Garden Notes: The Butterfly Effect
How to attract the prettiest swallowtails, monarchs and more to your garden? Plant their larval host plants
June Garden Notes: It’s Complicated
Come summertime, hydrangeas are lovely sight in the garden, but it takes a little knowhow to get them to look their best
Garden Tips: A Pop of May Color
I enter this month of transition with extra gratitude for two of spring’s most beautiful flowers, peonies and poppies
April Garden Notes: Welcome Weeds & Pests!
This month, change up your thinking about managing bugs, embracing beneficial plants and creating a balanced, thriving backyard ecosystem
March Garden Notes: On Feeding the Birds
This month, I’ll welcome nature’s song into my garden with thoughtful planting of berry-producing shrubs and other food sources
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.
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.