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Doreen G. Howard

Gardening Writer

Doreen Howard, an award-winning author, is the former garden editor at Woman’s Day. She has gardened in every climate zone from California to Texas to Oklahoma to the Midwest. She’s especially fond of unusual houseplants and has also grown nearly 300 heirloom edibles.

September Gardening Tips

orange mums, white mums, and purple mums in the garden center

Are Mums Perennials? Which Mums Come Back Year After Year

August 8 is National Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day!

Shady Characters: 10 Best Flowers and Plants For Shade Gardens

The 30 Best Flowers for Drying and Preserving

How to Mulch With Straw in the Garden

Fertilizing Containers: Tips for Feeding Plants in Pots

Rose 'Flower Carpet Amber' variety with a watering can

The Easiest Roses to Grow

Flower Garden Designs: Three-Season Flower Bed

Cyclamen plant with pink flowers and dark green leaves

Flowering Plants for Valentine's Day That Last!

Planting Tulip Bulbs in Winter

How to Help Monarch Butterflies

Poinsettia Care: How to Take Care of Poinsettia Flowers

Labor Day Gardening: What to Do in the Garden This Weekend

deer in garden

Which Animals Are Eating Your Garden (And How to Keep Them Out!)

How to Decorate With Pumpkins

How to Overwinter Tropical Plants Indoors

Dwarf and Mini Vegetables and Fruit for Containers

How to Overwinter Plants: Geranium, Begonia, and More!

Best Indoor Plants for Low Light

10 Tips for Maintaining Your Container Gardens Outdoors

Is a Tomato a Fruit or Vegetable? Plus 10 Tomato Tips

Surrender to Succulents

Gardening in Miniature: Fairy Gardens to Terrariums

Growing Organic Apples With Fruit Bagging

Blue Potatoes: Plant an Easy-to-Grow Heirloom in the Spring

Purple Reigns! Why Purple Foods Are Good for You

Bottle Trees: Mystical Color for the Garden

a green tomato afflicted with blight

Avoid Blight with the Right Tomato

Grow Tomatoes From Seed the Easy Way

Pest-Resistant Plants and Flowers

Blueberries: The Easiest Fruit to Grow Is Also One of the Healthiest

Stinky corpse flowers put on a good show indoors

The Almanac Garden Tour: An Inside Look!

Fall Tasks: Harvest, Store & Plant

a ripe, red tomato

Strategic Moves: Tips for Easier Gardening

Let Us Bare Roots

Impatient for Impatiens?

Seeds and Bees

Healing Power Grows in the Garden

My Dream Come True: The Smelliest Flower in the World

Old Roses are Tough and Gorgeous

Bittersweet End to the Gardening Season

Houseplants for black thumbs and travelers

Extreme gardening saves plenty of dollars

Plant sales are fertile hunting grounds for the unusual and inexpensive.

Plant these radishes for their tasty seed pods

Heart-shaped cucumbers make debut

multi-colored perennial flowers near a white fence

Know your dirt: soil types in the garden

houseplants on a windowsill

Clean House with Tropical Plants