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Attract Butterflies to Your Small Garden with These Flowering Perennials

Butterfly Bushes for Small Gardens | GardenersPath.com

Trying to attract more butterflies to your backyard? Read our suggested 6 options to learn how to experience the beautiful presence of these winged wonders.

How to Start Annuals Indoors from Seed

Annuals, Organic Gardening, Vegetables Spring, Winter

How to Start Annuals Indoors | GardenersPath.com

Are you itching to get into the garden, but it’s still too cold outside? Satisfy your craving to play in the dirt by starting seeds indoors. With an egg carton and potting medium, you can grow flowers, herbs, and vegetables to transplant outside when the weather warms. Learn how on Gardener’s Path.

Bone Meal: Friend or Foe? Learn How to Use It in Your Garden

Build Your Soil

A light green plastic bag of MiracleGro organic bone meal to the left of a pile of brown flower bulbs and a garden knife with an orange handle, in loose brown soil, with an evergreen in the background.

Have you heard of adding bone meal to the soil when planting flowers and vegetables? This organic fertilizer is rich in phosphorus and calcium, nutrients essential for healthy roots, foliage, flowers, and produce. Is it the right amendment for your garden? Learn how to be sure, right here on Gardener’s Path.

9 Must-Have Succulent Planters

Containers, Enclosures & Containers, Indoor Gardening

A large white planter is filled with various types of succulents.

Succulents are funky and fun to grow, especially in the trendy and functional containers we’ve gathered for you. Read on to discover 7 of our favorite pots and planters, plus key growing tips and a foolproof design scheme. Learn how to show off your water-wise plant collection now, right here on Gardener’s Path.

How to Make a Fresh and Festive Holiday Sparkle Centerpiece

Design, Winter Gardening

Overhead shot of a centerpiece comprised of white chrysanthemums, grasses, rose hips, and twigs from the garden, at the center of a table set with two white and orange plates with cream-colored cloth napkins tied with gold ribbon on top, with silverware at each place setting, on a cream-colored tablecloth with a gold and silver snowflake pattern.

Arranging fresh flowers for the table is easy when you follow these instructions for our festive holiday sparkle centerpiece. Choose flowers from your local market, make a container from an everyday item, and use your garden’s off-season treasures to craft glittering accents. Let’s get started, here on Gardener’s Path.

Guide to Backyard Birds and How to Attract Them to the Garden

Animals and Wildlife

Two beige, black, and yellow cedar waxwings perched on branches with green leaves and red berries, with a pale gray background.

Backyard birds are a gardener’s buddies. We’ve put together an expert guide on what to expect in your area, complete with a list of favorite feathered friends throughout the US. Learn all about what they’re looking to eat to help encourage them to call your garden home. Read more now on Gardener’s Path.

Easy Bulb Propagation for the Home Gardener

Flowers, Perennials, Propagation

A hand in a beige and off-white gardening glove holds a bulb with rootlike offsets, with a blue ceramic dish, a paring knife, and more bulbs in the background, on a surface covered with smooth gray pebbles.

Bulbs add beautiful blooms to the garden, and many of them will happily multiply and naturalize on their own. But some, usually the expensive ones, are more reluctant to divide and need manual manipulation for offspring to form. Join us now for all the details on how to successfully propagate your own bulbs at home.

9 Quick Tips to Make Jack-O’-Lanterns Last

Tips & Hacks

A person wearing a blue plaid shirt and an apron carves a jack-o'-lantern, with more large orange pumpkins to the left, on a wood work surface with scattered fall leaves and green foliage in soft focus in the background.

Nothing says Halloween like jack-o’-lanterns, but what good are they if they rot before you can say trick-or-treat? Before you go to the farmers market, read 9 quick tips to make carved pumpkins last longer. From selecting the best to inhibiting moisture, we’ve got ideas you can use, right here on Gardener’s Path.

The Best Tips for Cultivating Showy Garden Croton Indoors

Indoor Gardening houseplant

Two portions of a croton plant, one close to the camera and the other further away, with more vibrantly colored leaves on the closer portion, in a green and white painted room.

Nothing says “tropical” like the colorful foliage of garden croton, with its leathery evergreen leaves and bright red and yellow accents. If your climate zone is a cool one, you can grow it in a sunny indoor location for a lush island vibe. Read all about this easy-to-grow, long-lived plant now on Gardener’s Path.

A Box to Call Home: Build Your Own Bat House with our DIY Instructions

Animals and Wildlife

A gray and brown bat house in partial shadow, on a brown unfinished wood table and leaning against a beige stucco wall.

Building a bat box is an easy DIY activity, with a functional and beneficial outcome that provides a home for the nocturnal wildlife in your area. With just a drill – no other power tools required – you can produce a fully functional bat house. Keep reading to learn how to build your own now on Gardener’s Path!

DIY Guide: How to Install a Deer Fence to Keep Wildlife Out of the Garden

Animals and Wildlife

Black net deer fencing alone a stone retaining wall, with grass and trees on the other side.

If you’re sick of shaking your head when you look at the damage deer do to your hostas, roses, and fruit trees, you aren’t alone. Installing a deer fence is the best option to keep those voracious critters out of your garden and yard. Read more now on Gardener’s Path to learn how to install your own DIY fence.

The Top 11 Mushroom Growing Kits for Home Gardeners

Indoor Gardening, Vegetables

A round bamboo steamer basket is filled with a selection of five different type of brown andwhite mushrooms, including enoki, crimini, and oyster, on a brown wood background.

Want to grow your own mushrooms at home? From enokis to shiitakes, and many varieties in between, we’ve found some of the best kits available today to produce your own delicious harvests that will tantalize your taste buds – no foraging required! Read more and find the one that’s best for you now on Gardener’s Path.