Edible Plants

From cherry tomatoes to butternut squash, you can grow a whole cornucopia right in your own backyard — if you know how. The Habitat takes you through the finer points of raising vegetables and fruits in your garden. Your grocery store days could be coming to an end!

Garden

Whether gardening to you is planting flowers, growing vegetables, or pruning shrubs, The Habitat answers all your spade and soil questions!

Ornamental Plants

From flower beds to patio pots to hanging planters, decorative greenery and flowers can spruce up any yard and home and are often easy to care for.

Gardening

Gardening: a chance to get outdoors, dig in the dirt, and grow your own vegetables and flowers. Check out our tips!

Outdoor Living

From patio layouts, to bug repellant, to the best firepit and BBQ ideas, we'll help you elevate your time outside.

Landscaping

All the details on how to get rid of backyard pests, prune your shrubs, and choose the best plants for an outdoor space.

The tall stalks of pampas grass are easy to tend, and the fluffy fronds offer an attractive alternative to privacy hedges or fences.

Adding Pampas Grass to Your Garden

Growing boxwood shrubs is a versatile, low&#x2d;maintenance way to add year&#x2d;round color and interest to your yard. They make great border hedges.

Adding Boxwood Shrubs to Your Garden

Camellias are a showy addition to your garden. In the right climates, they are a low&#x2d;maintenance way to add bright, season&#x2d;long color around the yard.

Growing and Caring for Camellias

The lisianthus — also called the Texas bluebell — grows as wildflowers in many grassland areas. The flowers come in many beautiful colors.

Your Care Guide for the Lisianthus

The weigela is the perfect shrub for someone who wants a low&#x2d;maintenance plant that repays your mild efforts with profuse blooms.

Weigelas Add Low-Maintenance Color to Your Yard

If you want to build their own bat house, use online specs or buy a kit. Either way, follow a few simple tips to make your bat house tempting to guests.

How to Become a DIY Bat House Landlord

English ivy is a versatile addition to the yard and garden. It both spreads and climbs, making it an excellent groundcover or fence adornment.

Adorn Your House and Yard With English Ivy

While many gardeners consider this fast&#x2d;growing annual to be a weed, others see chickweed as a delicious and nutritious herb.

Chickweed is a Simple Plant With Tons of Healthy Benefits

Liriope is a tough species with pretty purple stalk flowers that spreads easily, making it an easy&#x2d;to&#x2d;maintain groundcover and border plant.

Growing Liriopes for Borders and Groundcover

Loropetalum chinense, the Chinese fringe flower, is a broadleaf evergreen with frilly flowers that add color along borders, walkways, and patios.

Loropetalum is An Easy-to-Grow Showstopper

There are few climbing plants as fragrant and beautiful as the honeysuckle. Some gardeners let this dramatic plant cover a whole wall or fence.

Honeysuckle Vines for Any Garden

Boston ivy is a hardy vine that just loves to climb. Plant it close to virtually any vertical surface and it will take grip and meander skyward.

Adding Pampas Grass to Your Garden

Adding Boxwood Shrubs to Your Garden

Growing and Caring for Camellias

Your Care Guide for the Lisianthus

Weigelas Add Low-Maintenance Color to Your Yard

How to Become a DIY Bat House Landlord

Adorn Your House and Yard With English Ivy

Chickweed is a Simple Plant With Tons of Healthy Benefits

Growing Liriopes for Borders and Groundcover

Loropetalum is An Easy-to-Grow Showstopper

Honeysuckle Vines for Any Garden

Plant Boston Ivy for that Ivy League Look

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Adding Pampas Grass to Your Garden

Adding Boxwood Shrubs to Your Garden

Growing and Caring for Camellias

Your Care Guide for the Lisianthus

Weigelas Add Low-Maintenance Color to Your Yard

How to Become a DIY Bat House Landlord

Adorn Your House and Yard With English Ivy

Chickweed is a Simple Plant With Tons of Healthy Benefits

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Growing Liriopes for Borders and Groundcover

Loropetalum is An Easy-to-Grow Showstopper

Honeysuckle Vines for Any Garden

Plant Boston Ivy for that Ivy League Look

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