Tree Care Tips

Imagine this: You walk past a garden center, stop dead in your tracks, and there it is — a Croton Petra plant exploding with fiery red, orange, pink, yellow, and green leaves so vivid they almost look fake. You bring it home, certain you’ve found the holy grail of houseplants. Three weeks later… those same […]

Imagine this: It’s Saturday morning. You step onto your lanai with a fresh cup of coffee… only to lock eyes with your neighbor mowing his lawn in nothing but Crocs and a smile. Again. 😩 In Florida, real backyard privacy feels like a myth — until you plant the right hedge. The problem? Most “best

Imagine this: you bring home a jaw-dropping houseplant with a glossy, zebra-striped rosette and a blazing red “sword” rising dramatically from the center. Everyone who walks into the room says “WOW!” Fast-forward four months… the flaming sword plant bloom has turned brown, the mother rosette looks sad, and you’re convinced you’ve killed yet another plant.

Imagine stepping into your garden on a warm summer morning and being greeted by dozens of dinner-plate-sized hibiscus flowers in electric pink, fiery red, and sunny yellow — so many blooms that you can barely see the leaves! 🌞 That dream is 100% achievable, even if your hibiscus has been underwhelming you for years. The

Imagine walking into your living room and being greeted by a plant that looks like it just stepped out of a Dr. Seuss book — leaves twisted into perfect green corkscrews, bouncing with personality. That’s the magic of Frizzle Sizzle plants (Alocasia ‘Frizzle Sizzle’), the quirky aroid that has taken the houseplant world by storm.

You know the scenario: you fall in love with a gorgeous plant at the nursery, the tag proudly says “full sun,” you give it the sunniest spot in your yard… and three weeks later it’s a sad, scorched skeleton. 😭 I’ve been there—more times than I care to admit—until I finally cracked the code on

The Day I Accidentally Became Garlic-Rich 💰 Three autumns ago I stood in my garden holding a basket of curly green scapes I’d just cut for dinner. At the tip of each scape was a cluster of tiny purple marbles — bulbils. I almost threw them to the chickens. Instead, on a whim, I scattered

Imagine stepping into your garden in early March and being greeted by a shimmering carpet of electric cobalt-blue flowers when everything else is still brown and asleep. That’s the magic of the Georgia Blue speedwell plant (Veronica peduncularis ‘Georgia Blue’) — one of the hardest-working, most beautiful groundcovers you’ll ever grow. This little Caucasian gem

You stepped outside with your morning coffee, ready to admire your vibrant geraniums… and your heart sank. Instead of rich green foliage and bold red blooms, your beloved geranium plant has white leaves — some ghostly pale, others dusted with suspicious white powder. 😱 Don’t panic yet. I’m Sarah Greenwood, a certified horticulturist with 18

Close your eyes for a second and picture this: you step into the garden on a warm August morning, reach up to a towering vine, and pick a single tomato that fills your palm — a blushing pink, 1–2 pound German Johnson tomato so aromatic you can smell summer before you even take a bite.