Home & Garden
The case for crocosmia, a devilish delight in the garden
Attract hummingbirds and butterflies with these blooming beauties. Plus, here’s what to plant this month, and how to repel plant-munching slugs.
May 1, 2025
Avoid spring gardening mistakes for a summer veggie bounty
Praying for a garden full of veggies? Beware of common causes for poor fruit set.
Apr 1, 2025
Visit a ‘best-kept secret’: SC’s Medal of Honor Museum elevates heroes
Celebrate everything from agriculture to fine art—with plenty of good eats—from corner to corner of South Carolina this spring. Check out this schedule of local festivals.
Apr 1, 2025
Glory lily lives up to its name as a glorious garden beauty
To add even more interest to its simmering colors, this lily’s petals look like they are being fluttered backward by a breeze.
Mar 1, 2025
Bright kalanchoe is a midwinter garden showoff
This bold-colored beauty might seem like it would thrive in steamy Southern summers, but now is its time to shine.
Feb 1, 2025
Flashy foliage plants bring sass to the garden
When your green thumb starts itching, it’s time to start planning for spring planting. Try these colorful show-stoppers.
Jan 1, 2025
Make unique gifts from your own garden
Turn some of your garden delectables into easy-to-make herb vinegars for holiday gifts. Plus, learn what to plant in late autumn.
Nov 1, 2024
Toad lilies
With a toad’s spots and dimples, this is a beautiful lily, plus how to extend the life of your Halloween pumpkin With a toad’s spots and dimples, this is a beautiful lily, plus how to extend the life of your Halloween pumpkin.
Oct 1, 2024
Vitex 101, plus herb garden tips
Show off with this fairy-like flowering ornamental, and more fall gardening tips.
Sep 1, 2024
Got milk (jug)?
Believe it or not, you can put plastic gallon jugs to work in the garden.
Aug 1, 2024
The glow that grows
Our gardening columnist makes the case that it’s hard not to like this low-growing groundcover’s brilliant display.
Jul 1, 2024
Catch of the season
If you like pretty plants that are also pretty weird, our gardening columnist suggests the delightfully odd shrimp plant as the latest addition to your landscape.
Jun 1, 2024
Fancy plants: heucheras
How does your garden grow? A whole lot better when you add the decorative touch of this native plant.
May 1, 2024
The other spiders
Even arachnophobes can find beauty and charm among the must-have plants that include “spider” in their names.
Apr 1, 2024
A consumer guide to stovetops
Don’t start that kitchen remodel until you read up on the best new options in stovetops.
Apr 1, 2024
A different dazzle: torch lily
Light up your landscape with the explosive colors of the torch lily.
Mar 1, 2024
Potato planting time
Gardening columnist L.A. Jackson shows us just how easy it is to grow your own spuds this season.
Feb 1, 2024
Cool dogwoods
L.A. Jackson sings the praises of Japanese cornel dogwoods and their colorful flowers that emerge in late winter.
Jan 1, 2024
The impatient paperwhites
Need an indoor gardening project this winter? Look no further than the paperwhite narcissus.
Dec 1, 2023
Basic poinsettia care
For the secrets to making poinsettias last all season long, look no further than the name of a classic R&B band.
Dec 1, 2023