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Time it Right: When to fertilize your plants
Time it Right: When to fertilize…

Here's a handy guide to help you time your fertilizer applications…

Time it Right: Late Winter to Early Spring Fertilizer
Time it Right: Late Winter to Early…

Most trees and shrubs are fertilized in early spring. Feed the following…

Time it Right: Mid- to Late-Spring Fertilizer
Time it Right: Mid- to Late-Spring…

As the weather warms up, here are the plants to feed in mid to late-spring.

Time it Right: Early- to Mid-Summer Fertilizer
Time it Right: Early- to Mid-Summer…

lawns & edible plants take up more nutrients & will benefit from more…

Time it Right: Late Summer Fertilizer
Time it Right: Late Summer Fertilizer

Fertilizing this late can have negative impacts, but these plants…

Time it Right: Autumn Fertilizer
Time it Right: Autumn Fertilizer

The list of plants benefiting from fall feeding is a short one, check…

Video: Why Choose Plants from Southern Living® Plant Collection?
Video: Why Choose Plants from Southern…

Our plants are selected for Southern climates to make your garden…

How to Prune Plum Yews
How to Prune Plum Yews

Expert tips for doing the job correctly

Demystifying Hydrangea Pruning
Demystifying Hydrangea Pruning

How to identify and properly prune your summer beauties

Video: How to Prune Hydrangeas
Video: How to Prune Hydrangeas

This video will teach you how hydrangea pruning can help you get the…

Berry Important:  Pollination, Chill Hours and Plant Food
Berry Important:  Pollination,…

Easy explanations to FAQs on growing blueberries

How Do I Overwinter Tender Perennials?
How Do I Overwinter Tender Perennials?

Cold-Hardy Plants
Cold-Hardy Plants

Southern Living isn't only about geography—it's a lifestyle.

How to Care for Boxwood
How to Care for Boxwood

Expert care advice for maintaining healthy boxwoods

How to Properly Transplant Your Shrubs
How to Properly Transplant Your…

Take the time to transplant your shrubs so they can thrive!

5 Ways to Protect Your Garden this Winter
5 Ways to Protect Your Garden this…

Learn how to protect your plants and minimize winter damage

Four Ways to Protect Your Shrubs This Winter
Four Ways to Protect Your Shrubs…

Learn how to protect plants this winter so they thrive come spring.

7 Steps to Stunning Container-Grown Camellias
7 Steps to Stunning Container-Grown…

Expert advice for successfully maintaining potted camellias

For more blooms, give your plants a pinch of love
For more blooms, give your plants…

Tips for properly pruning and deadheading plants for maximum performance

Video: Fall Growing Checklist
Video: Fall Growing Checklist

Prepare your garden for the season with this month-to-month Fall Growing…

Caring for the Summer Garden
Caring for the Summer Garden

Common Questions and Answers

10 Plants for Poorly-Drained Soils
10 Plants for Poorly-Drained Soils

Not all gardeners are blessed with rich, loamy soil.

Grow Your Own Fruit with Blueberry Bushes
Grow Your Own Fruit with Blueberry…

Made for Southern Gardens

Video: Evercolor® Carex Series
Video: Evercolor® Carex Series

Bold evergreen foliage that lasts all year

Pet Friendly Southern Living Plants
Pet Friendly Southern Living Plants

Designing a garden that is both beautiful & pet-friendly takes special…

Top 5 Gardening Hacks
Top 5 Gardening Hacks

Try these helpful tricks in your garden.

Video: Purple Pixie® Dwarf Weeping Loropetalum Care Tips
Video: Purple Pixie® Dwarf Weeping…

Purple Pixie® Loropetalum is truly a new and unique plant.

How to Shape and Thin Crapemyrtles
How to Shape and Thin Crapemyrtles

Crapemyrtles do not require pruning and simply shaping and thinning…

Select Your Easy-Care Southern Living Loropetalum
Select Your Easy-Care Southern…

A Loropetalum Size Guide

What’s the Buzz?  How to attract beneficial insects to the garden
What’s the Buzz?  How to…

How to attract beneficial insects to the garden

Video: ‘Sunshine’ Ligustrum
Video: ‘Sunshine’ Ligustrum

Learn how to infuse your garden with color and year round appeal with…

How to maximize gardenia blooms
How to maximize gardenia blooms

Here are some tips to encourage gardenias to bloom

No Worries
No Worries

This year’s off-season blooming is not a source for concern

5 Steps for Perfecting Pieris
5 Steps for Perfecting Pieris

How to care for this petite beauty

“Massive” Impact
“Massive” Impact

4 ways to make a statement with Yewtopia® Plum Yew

“Shape Up” Your Garden
“Shape Up” Your Garden

How to structurally prune young trees

Garden Recovery
Garden Recovery

Caring for Plants after the Storm

No More Pests!
No More Pests!

The natural way to banish bugs and pathogens from your garden

Southern Stunners: 5 tips for adding camellias
Southern Stunners: 5 tips for adding…

Expert advice for using a variety of camellias

Building a Better Base
Building a Better Base

A recipe for garden success

Fall is for Planting
Fall is for Planting

Why now is the time to start digging

Meet the Delta Series of Crapemyrtles
Meet the Delta Series of Crapemyrtles

Versatile Delta Series Crapemyrtles shine bright in summer

More of What You Love
More of What You Love

Spring-Blooming Early Bird™ Crapemyrtles

Natural Attraction
Natural Attraction

How to entice pollinators to your garden

Proper Planting: Advice for when to plant
Proper Planting: Advice for when…

Learn the optimum time to plant trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials,…

Prune After Bloom
Prune After Bloom

Not all plants should be pruned in late winter or early spring.

Video: 5 Easy to Grow Plants with Carmen Johnston
Video: 5 Easy to Grow Plants with…

Join Carmen Johnston in this video as she details 5 easy to grow plants.

Crape Murder
Crape Murder

“Crape Murder,” is often committed by otherwise decent, law-abiding…

Pruning 101: How to Prune Crapemyrtles
Pruning 101: How to Prune Crapemyrtles

Learn the proper way to prune crapemyrtles for maximum blooms and…

Properly Planting Purple Pixie®
Properly Planting Purple Pixie®

Four easy steps to make your Purple Pixie® Loropetalum thrive

What is a Microclimate?
What is a Microclimate?

Increase your gardening potential with microclimates.

Later, Bambi: Deer tolerant and deer resistant plants
Later, Bambi: Deer tolerant and…

Loropetalums and more plants for your deer-resistant garden

Fall Bulbs vs Spring Bulbs
Fall Bulbs vs Spring Bulbs

Fall and spring bulbs share similar growing behaviors and planting…

Green Gardening – Organic Alternatives
Green Gardening – Organic Alternatives

Let’s make compost.

Testing Soil Composition
Testing Soil Composition

Plants have different preferences in soil texture, drainage, nutrients,…

Late summer showers bring Oxblood Lily flowers
Late summer showers bring Oxblood…

Oxblood Lilies bloom striking vermilion red flowers beginning in early…

Bambi Resistant?!
Bambi Resistant?!

Who can resist the sweet doe-eyed Bambi we’ve grown to love in cartoons?

Grow In Your Zone
Grow In Your Zone

The most basic factor in selecting the right plants depends on your…

Rain Collection for the Garden
Rain Collection for the Garden

Top 5 Plants for Sun
Top 5 Plants for Sun

Make gardening much easier by choosing from our list of top 5 plant…

A Gardener’s Guide to Sun Exposure
A Gardener’s Guide to Sun…

How to choose plants based on light conditions in the landscape

Top 5 Plants for Easy Care
Top 5 Plants for Easy Care

Make planning your garden or landscape much easier with our easy care…

Getting the Dirt on Soil
Getting the Dirt on Soil

How do you know how good your soil is or how to make it better? Just…

Good Bugs & Bad Bugs
Good Bugs & Bad Bugs

Insects are an important part of your ecosystem, accept their presence.

6 Ways to Improve Your Garden
6 Ways to Improve Your Garden

Follow these 6 easy steps to improve and enhance your garden:

Plant Spring Bulbs for Upcoming Summer and Fall Beauty
Plant Spring Bulbs for Upcoming…

Spring planting goes beyond immediate gratification and can keep on…

Spring Gardening Checklist
Spring Gardening Checklist

Use this checklist to to support and protect new growth in your garden.

When to Water
When to Water

We all love drought resistant plants!

Beat the Heat
Beat the Heat

Shrubs need protection from extreme weather conditions!

5 Steps to Winterize your Garden
5 Steps to Winterize your Garden

Late fall and winter can be a dormant season for gardeners.

Leaves Make Great Organic Mulch and Compost
Leaves Make Great Organic Mulch…

As much as we’d like to hibernate during winter, the leaves remind…

Must Have Plants for Fall
Must Have Plants for Fall

We've made planning easy by selecting ten must have plants for fall.

Fall Planting Guide & Suggested Specimens
Fall Planting Guide & Suggested…

Fall planting advice and plant suggestions from Southern Living Plants

Your Fall To-do List: 11 Essential Garden Tasks
Your Fall To-do List: 11 Essential…

Grab your gloves, here are 11 essential garden tasks for fall.

Fall Checklist
Fall Checklist

Freshen your landscape and ready it for winter temperatures and spring…

Video: Queen Mum™ Agapanthus
Video: Queen Mum™ Agapanthus

Learn about the special features of Queen Mum™ Agapanthus

Video: LeAnn™ Cleyera
Video: LeAnn™ Cleyera

Learn about LeAnn's uniform growth and evergreen leaves

Video: Emerald Snow® Semi-dwarf Loropetalum
Video: Emerald Snow® Semi-dwarf…

Learn why Emerald Snow is a perfect, evergreen shrub

Video: Rosalinda® Indian Hawthorne
Video: Rosalinda® Indian Hawthorne

In this video, learn why Rosalinda is the most vigorous and robust…

Video: Bronze Beauty™ Cleyera
Video: Bronze Beauty™ Cleyera

Video: Cleopatra™ Liriope
Video: Cleopatra™ Liriope

This video shows why Cleopatra is an excellent choice for many landscape…

Video: Delta Jazz® Crapemyrtle
Video: Delta Jazz® Crapemyrtle

Learn how to jazz up your garden with this versatile small tree

Video: Blush Pink™ Nandina
Video: Blush Pink™ Nandina

Video: Early Bird™ Lavender Crapemyrtle
Video: Early Bird™ Lavender Crapemyrtle

In this video, learn why we love this his early blooming crapemyrtle

Video: Flirt™ Nandina
Video: Flirt™ Nandina

This video shows off Flirt's superior color through the summer

Video: Yewtopia® Plum Yew
Video: Yewtopia® Plum Yew

Learn about Yewtopia's uses and easy care in this video

Video: Purple Pixie® Dwarf Weeping Loropetalum
Video: Purple Pixie® Dwarf Weeping…

Just the plant we've been crying for, learn why we love Pixie in the…

Video: Spring Sonata™ Indian Hawthorne
Video: Spring Sonata™ Indian…

In this video, learn how Spring Sonata is in perfect tune with today's…

Video: Obsession™ Nandina
Video: Obsession™ Nandina

This video shows off this new and distinctive nandina

Composting – from the kitchen to the garden
Composting – from the kitchen…

What’s not to love about compost?!

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