Gardening

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

Garden

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

Outdoor Living

Whether your yard needs work or is already an oasis, we've got the best patio inspo and firepit plans — 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 a gorgeous green outdoor space of any size.

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!

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.

Holly shrubs are also available as climbing plants and trees. Many varieties have bright red berries that add interest in the winter months.

The luffa plant is perhaps best known for the sponges made from it once it matures. When harvested young, it tastes similar to summer squash.

Epsom salt can add magnesium to soil that is lacking in this important nutrient. Using too much or adding it unnecessarily can also harm your garden.

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

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.

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.

Plant care

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Garden

Adding Holly to Your Garden and Home

10 Simple Steps to Grow Your Own Loofah

Maximize Your Garden's Potential with Epsom Salt

Create a stunning garden with pampas grass

Adding Boxwood Shrubs to Your Garden

Creating a Beautiful Camellia Garden

Maximizing the Beauty of Your Lisianthus Plants

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

Discover the Benefits of Liriopes for Borders and Groundcovers