Potted Plants
Zone 6 planting advice gets tossed around like gospel, but after a decade of trial, error, and the occasional late April snowstorm drenching my ambitions, I’ve learned one core truth: most “expert” guides want you to juggle so many variables—chill hours, cumulative degree days, soil probes—that it’
Potted Plants
The first time I tried to plot out a garden bed, I stood in my backyard clutching a packet of zinnias, utterly baffled. The tag said “space 10 inches apart,” but the patch of earth at my feet looked enormous. Did that mean I needed 10 seeds? Twenty? Fifty? I
Potted Plants
The first time I brought home a Red Sister (Cordyline fruticosa), it was an impulse buy at a discount table in Honolulu’s Kaimuki neighborhood back in early 2019. I thought, “How hard could it be?” and, armed with a generic care tag, plopped it into my living room. Within