Carolina Gardens

Tips for the New Gardener

Gardening experts offer their thoughts on design

The Incredible, Edible, Ornamental Eggplant

Planting for Pollinators

Go native to attract these garden assets

Keep Your Feeder for the Birds

Safe and humane ways to encourage uninvited guest to leave the seeds for the birds

Great Garden Photos

The best of our reader-submitted garden photos and stories

Deer Me! What’s Eating Your Landscape?

Try these three methods to keep your yard off the menu

Born in the USA: Native Wisterias

Plus Garden To Do’s for March

Moonflowers

Delight of the night

Made for the shade

Japanese painted fern

Four-season interest

Giving your yard color throughout the year

Gardening blunders

Avoid mistakes by learning from your ‘foregardeners’

Getting the best bang for your buck

8 vegetables that yield ample payback

Bountiful blueberries

Growing your own

Daylily nights

Plus Garden To-Do's for April and May

Garden Décor

How to go with what you love (without going overboard)

Poaching is Illegal

In North Carolina, you can go to jail if you steal pine straw, Venus flytraps, wild ginseng and many other protected wild plants

The Barefoot feeder

How to make a Nyjer or thistle seed feeder

Grow for it!

Tips and tricks for home gardeners this spring

Pretty Spiderworts

They also are deer-resistant and will bloom from spring into the summer

Lunar Magic

Planting by the moon is no passing phase

Poisonous Plants

Getting rid of harmful ivy, oak and sumac in your yard

Extending the Growing Season

Greenhouses allow for a variety of fresh produce and flowers year-round

Find a public garden

The Riddle of Sweet Betsy