Teaching Thursdays

Teaching Thursdays provide weekly video gardening tips and “how-tos” in our weekly e-newsletter: Life Lived Outside.

Browse the posts below for information to support your gardening efforts and answer your pressing questions.

For a small shade tree that shapes beautifully, like the ones we drew as kindergarteners, look no further than the Ligustrum Tree.

Planting a Dwarf Red Powderpuff is like putting out a sign in your garden that says, “Bees, you are welcome here!”

Non-stop color? Sunstar Pentas are reporting for duty!

Curcuma Ginger can bring you tropical tulip vibes!

Birds in the backyard can bring so much joy. Making your garden a habitat for them isn’t hard with native plants.

Creating your own butterfly garden is not difficult at all with our expert tips.

Dirt or Soil? What’s the difference?

Mangaves: a cool group of hybrids that are drought-tolerant with a variety of colorful and textural foliage.

Ferns can add gorgeous texture and lushness to your home or patio, they just need a little TLC.

The Crapes are out and they’re glorious!

The Firecracker Plant and Hummingbirds make a great flora-fauna match.

Often, the rain we think is a monsoon is not enough to stop watering our plants!

Anybody can sell you plants, we make sure you succeed.

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