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.

Sunstar® Pentas by Proven Winners®
Non-stop color? Sunstar Pentas are reporting for duty!


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

Create Your Own Butterfly Garden
Creating your own butterfly garden is not difficult at all with our expert tips.


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

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


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

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

3 Tips for Keeping Hydrangeas Happy
Hydrangeas are gorgeous, they just need the correct conditions in our 9b grow zone.

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