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Tree Guide: a great guide to help you decide what to plant

Tree Guide: a great guide to help you decide what to plant

13 Trees You Should Never Plant In Your Yard

13 Trees You Should Never Plant In Your Yard For most people, the end of summer and approach of autumn means cooler temperatures, harvest time for crops, a

Top 10 Plants You Can't Kill

Tough as nails, but they're pretty, too. Turn your black thumb into a green thumb with our picks for the top 10 plants you can't kill.

16 Invasive Species Sold at Garden Centers You Should Never Buy

These 16 invasive species of plants are commonly sold at garden centers - beware of them and DO NOT buy them from your garden store!

Why Your Garden Needs Mulch (Assuming You Do It Right)

Used correctly, mulch builds and improves your soil like nothing else. But don’t make these common mistakes.

10 Flower Arranging Tips

A florist at heart? These 10 tips will help your flower arrangements last longer and have a professionally polished touch.

Eco-Friendly Cooling Tips For High Tunnels and Greenhouses

A garden designer explains how she keeps her under-cover growing spaces cool all summer.

Consider easy and more sustainable alternatives to peat moss

So much peat moss has been harvested for use in gardens and landscapes that in many places there’s not much left. | realestate.boston.com

Aeration Systems Remove Excess Nutrients from Municipal Water Supplies

Several years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began an initiative to control excessive nitrogen and phosphorus pollution entering the Gulf of Mexico through watersheds. Although phosphorus and nitrogen are nutrients needed for aquatic plant and algal growth, excess amounts can have damaging effects. Farming states were under pressure to restore their surface water quality. Too Much Nitrogen & Phosphorus

When water supplies ebb, users go with the flow

Drought-tolerant alfalfa is an example of our ability to adapt to dry times

How do Wildfires — And Efforts to Abate Them — Affect the Nation’s Water Supplies?

More than 180 million people across the United States rely on forest watersheds to store, filter, and deliver the water that flows from their taps. Unfortunately, in many parts of the country, these watershed functions face an increasing risk of severe wildfire. Prescribed burning is one treatment that can reduce forest fuels and wildfire’s threats…

Using Graywater and Stormwater to Enhance Local Water Supplies: An Assessment of Risks, Costs,...

Download a PDF of "Using Graywater and Stormwater to Enhance Local Water Supplies" by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for free.

How to Prepare Peat Moss for Flytraps, Sundews and Other Carnivorous Plants

An explanation of how to prepare Canadian peat moss when using it to pot carnivorous plants such as the Venus Flytrap. Learn how to make peat tea in the process,...

Special coverage: Have SoCal's water supplies recovered?

Not all of the region's water sources have rebounded, despite above average rain and snow. Areas that don't import any water are still in conservation mode.

Watershed Monitoring Benefits Private Lands and Public Water Supplies

Different land uses have different impacts to water quality and quantity in waterbodies throughout the state

Tests of city-supplied water filters work, but only 'stop-gap measure'

City Safe Water Program is a lead water filtration system that removes lead  from one Regent Square home.

Changing climate imperils global food and water supplies, new U.N. study finds

The world cannot avoid the worst impacts of climate change without overhauling the ways we grow food, raise livestock and manage forests, a major new study says.

These L.A. Plant Shops and Nurseries Will Help You Grow a Dreamy Home Jungle

looking up at leaves. See the fruit?

Ficus dammaropsis in my garden - looking up at leaves. See the fruit?

More Than Just Pretty Plants …

Orchid? More like taking care of Y’Orchid…😎<br>Proper Orchid care seems to be a bit of a controversial topic in the plant community because there is so many different ways to keep those beauties nice and healthy.<br>To avoid over watering most people place ice cubes on top of the soil, so that the melted ice provides just enough water. Instead of watering like usual, we’ve decided to test this method out!<br>How do you keep your orchid alive?