Juneberry plants reward you with spring flowers, sweet summer fruit, and fall color. Learn how to plant, grow, prune, protect, and harvest serviceberry.
Growing a plum tree is easy once you match the type to your climate and pollination needs. A full guide to choosing, planting, pruning, thinning, and harvesting plums.
Gala apples are sweet, crisp, and among the easiest fruit trees to grow. Learn the cultivar’s traits and strains, plus how to pollinate, plant, and harvest.
Unsure how to grow the mullein plant or curb its seeding? Grow common mullein and ornamental Verbascum in full sun and lean soil, from seed to seed control.
Honeyberry is an ultra cold-hardy edible honeysuckle ripening blue berries before strawberries. Learn siting, two-cultivar pollination, care, and harvest.
Rowan tree, the cool-climate mountain ash, brings white spring flowers, blazing fall color, and bird-loved berries to small gardens in zones 3 to 7.
Rosary vine looks fussy but is easy once you treat this trailing string of hearts like a succulent – light, gritty soil, lean watering, and easy propagation.
Spicebush is a tough native shrub for shady, damp corners, giving early yellow flowers, swallowtail caterpillars, red bird berries, and golden fall color.
A tulip tree grows fast into a towering native shade tree, but its size and soft wood make site choice everything. Learn where to plant, water, and prune it.
Pussy willow gives you soft silver catkins every spring. Learn to plant, water, hard-prune for the best stems, dry the catkins, and root cuttings in water.
Sedge (Carex) is a grass-like ornamental that thrives where turf fails, from dry shade to soggy rain gardens. Learn the best native and cultivar types, how to plant and space them, the spring comb-out, and how to tell ornamental sedge from weedy nutsedge.
The catnip plant is one of the easiest perennial herbs to grow. Learn to start it from seed, shield young plants from cats, and harvest and dry the leaves.