Garden

A Homes & Gardens guide explains how to plant indoor hyacinths, chill unprepared bulbs and care for pots for late-winter blooms.

Country Living highlights 12 plants that bring winter color, berries, flowers, bark, texture or food for birds to the garden.

A gardening guide suggests seven ways to reuse Halloween pumpkins, from saving seeds and composting to safe disposal and bird-feeder crafts.

Gardening expert Rhonda Fleming Hayes recommends nine spring-blooming bulbs deer tend to avoid, while warning that resistance is not guaranteed.

An Amateur Gardening report recommends composting and wildlife piles for garden debris, while warning about smoke, emissions and wildlife harm from bonfires.

An Ideal Home report forecasts large foliage, characterful mature plants and a slower, more considered approach to houseplants in 2027.

Amateur Gardening outlines five ways to limit slug and snail damage, from morning watering and habitat changes to checking planters and using nematodes.

A Homes & Gardens report recommends removing infected rose leaves in October to reduce a source of black spot spores before next season.

Country Living outlines four fall planting errors that can affect trees and shrubs: circling roots, deep planting, poor watering and mulch against bark.

Take 4- to 6-inch coleus cuttings before frost, root them in water and grow them indoors until spring, according to Country Living.