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Gardening

Gardening including landscaping, growing perennials and annuals and vegetable gardening.

  • A garden bed with various green hosta plants and other foliage, ideal for planting in the shade, including some with variegated leaves and a single yellow flower blooming.

    Some of the Best Shade Plants for Chicago Area and the Midwest

  • A framed dried flower vintage photo collage sits on a wooden shelf, decorated with pressed flowers, beside velvet books and two white vases holding yellow and purple flowers, against a black brick wall.

    Dried Flower Embellished Vintage Photo

  • Various pressed blue and purple wildflowers with green leaves arranged on a white sheet of paper on a wooden surface, showcasing results from learning how to press flowers with books.

    How to Press Flowers with Books

  • A shaded garden area with various potted and hanging plants, including ferns and coleus, surrounds two trees. Sunlight filters through the foliage and a DIY solar water fountain adds a gentle, soothing sound to the tranquil space.

    How to Make a Battery Operated Solar Powered Water Fountain

  • A glass vase contains labeled flowers and foliage—zinnias, hydrangea, butterfly bush, pink yarrow, lemon balm, coleus, and autumn joy sedum—inspiring you to make backyard bouquets.

    The Best Flowers for Bouquets with Home Grown Flowers

  • A person creates backyard bouquets, arranging green and white variegated leaves and flowers in a gold vase on a table with scissors and plant stems.

    Ideas to Make Flower Bouquets for Gifting

  • Several Japanese Beetles, are clustered on the green leaves and buds of a flowering plant with some wilted yellow blossoms. How do I get rid of Japanese Beetles on my garden plants?.

    How To Help Control Japanese Beetles Naturally

  • A repurposed dresser drawer into a planter holds yellow and purple flowers, set on grass beside a white metal chair and a wooden fence.

    Old Dresser Drawer Flower Planter Box

  • A green potted plant with pink flowers is placed on a table. The table also holds a stack of books. A beige couch is in the background.

    Early Forcing Spring Bulbs

  • A small potted plant and a rock are displayed inside a geometric glass terrarium, showcasing a charming DIY terrarium project on a wooden surface.

    Repurposed Glass Lamp Shade Cloche Terrarium

  • Golden color of a dried hydrangea

    Air-Drying Hydrangeas for Arrangements

  • A small glass jar labeled "Chicago Guernsey Farm" holds a vibrant bouquet of variegated coleus leaves in shades of green, red, and pink. The jar is partially filled with water to propagate and grow the coleus, while two similar jars with plants are blurred in the background.

    Propagate and Grow Coleus

  • Decorative wooden privacy wall with plants and cozy seating.

    Styled Decorative Panel Privacy Wall for Deck

  • A lush garden filled with bright, vibrant pink bee balm flowers that bloom around the 4th of July against a background of greenery and a blue house. The flower heads have a unique, spiky appearance with numerous thin petals radiating outward.

    Firework Flowers That Bloom Around The 4th Of July

  • Cherry Bells in the Garden showcase clusters of pale purple, bell-shaped flowers on green stems, nestled among broad green leaves in a vibrant garden setting.

    Cherry Bells in the Garden

  • Make a cute hanging paper cone vase for Spring!

    How to Make Hanging Paper Cone Vases for Flowers with Step by Step Photos

  • Stamping on flower pots

    Chalk Paint Flower Pot Makeover and Hand Stamping

  • Several yellow yarrow flower stems are laid out on a wooden surface next to a small pile of detached green leaves, perfect for learning how to dry flowers for DIY dried arrangements.

    How to Dry Flowers for DIY Dried Floral Arrangements

  • A close-up shot of vibrant pink peony flowers in full bloom, arranged in a white ceramic vase. The soft green background subtly enhances the vivid color of the flowers, making the arrangement appear fresh and lively.

    Old-Fashioned Peony Flowers

  • Raised bed garden and arbor

    Cottage Garden Tour with Summer Flowers

  • Flowering dogwood

    Different Types of Dogwood Trees to Plant to Add Interest to Your Yard

  • Oven roast asparagus spears on foil, lightly browned and seasoned, with a small logo in the bottom right corner reading "Jennifer Rizzo".

    How To Make Oven Roasted Asparagus

  • A person places a new fabric canopy for a playset—blue and white striped—over the top of a wooden play structure with a slide and swings in a backyard.

    Replacing a Playset Canopy

  • Viburnum Leaf Beetle Larvae on a leaf

    What’s Eating My Viburnum Bush?

  • Use a spade shovel to cut apart a hosta root ball

    How to Divide Hosta

  • Close-up of two dried, red berries hanging from a thin, brown branch. The background is out of focus and features muted, warm tones, possibly a building. The berries have a wrinkled texture, indicating they are dried or nearing the end of their lifecycle—plants that add winter interest in the yard.

    Plants That Add Winter Interest in the Yard

  • A woven basket filled with pink and green hydrangea flowers, perfect for preparing hydrangeas to dry for decorating, sits elegantly on a white surface.

    Preparing Hydrangeas To Dry For Decorating

  • A galvanized bucket with pink flowers and a witch hat made from canvas, surrounded by Halloween-themed decorations, including pumpkins and pastel bat plant stakes, on a porch.

    How to Make a DIY Witch Hat from Canvas

  • Use a create with jars inside for flowers

    Make an Easy Flower Box from a Wood Crate

  • Dining room with snowball viburnums in a vase abd bvlack wallpaper with mushrooms and a twine pendant light

    How to Grow a Snowball Bush Viburnum with Care and Planting Tips

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