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For healthy plants, test your garden’s soil for pH level

Healthy plants are the most critical component of a thriving garden. And one of the best ways to keep them that way is to make sure your soil’s pH level suits their needs. Every plant requires a specific soil pH range within which it can best absorb essential nutrients. Because the optimal ...

For Arbor Day, plant a tree resilient to climate change

Trees are long-term investments that often outlive the people who plant them. And with the world’s climate changing fast, we now need to consider whether the trees we plant today will be able to withstand the changing conditions in our gardens over the next 30, 50 or even 100 ...

Heed conditions if planting a wildflower meadow in your yard or garden

Wildflower meadows have been growing in popularity among gardeners, and for good reason. They’re low-maintenance and drought-tolerant, provide food for birds, wildlife, pollinators and other insects, and they’re pretty. Wildflowers are native plants, so your options will vary according to ...

Care, ‘magic’ help Washington, D.C.’s cherry blossoms

Peak bloom has already passed for the thousands of Japanese cherry blossom trees at the National Mall in Washington when the area was awash in magnificent pink and white. Predicting the timing of peak bloom — defined as when 70% of the blossoms have opened — has been getting harder. In ...

Planting a garden from seed is easy and can start now

By JEFF LOWENFELS Associated Press The catalogs have been thumbed through, and the seed racks are sprouting like weeds at local nurseries and garden centers. There is now enough daylight across the country to start garden seeds without the aid of artificial lights. Some seeds can be planted ...