Pennington Gardening • September 2025

How to Choose Clovers for Your Lawn and Yard

When your yard dreams extend beyond traditional turfgrass, clovers offer options too good to ignore. Sustainability? Check. Biodiversity? Check. Less maintenance, water conservation, less fertilizer and pest control? Clovers can help you achieve all these goals and more.

Pennington Gardening • September 2025

How to Create a No-Mow Meadow Grass Lawn

Gone are the days when every lawn owner aspired to have a clean, green square around their home. Every neighborhood has room for a little creativity — and personal green spaces as unique as you are.

Pennington.com • September 2025

All About Jays and How to Attract Them

When most North American bird lovers think of jays, the common Blue Jay is the first wild bird that comes to mind. But North America is home to at least 10 species of jays, with about four times that number worldwide. Though only one species is called Blue Jay, most (but not all) North American jays sport feathers with varied hues of brilliant blues. With color as a starting clue, jays are a great group of wild birds to build your bird ID skills. Across the board, jays are known as one of the m...

Pennington Seed • September 2025

Why a Cover Crop Is Good for Your Garden

Cover crops are an easy, eco-friendly way to improve your garden soil over the winter months, so it’s rich and ready for spring planting.

Pennington Gardening • August 2023

How to Make Natural Plant Dyes From Your Garden

Now that you have your own slice of earth for homegrown flowers, vegetables and berries, the sky's the limit on what you can do. Fresh-cut bouquets, pollinator parties and yard-to-table culinary adventures are awesome, but why stop there? Those aren't the only ways garden plants can brighten your home.

Pennington Gardening • July 2023

How to Design and Plant Water-Conscious Gardens

Having your own yard and garden is satisfying for a lot of reasons. But one of our favorites is being able to call the shots and control your impact on the environment. Regardless of your yard or garden size, your choices can help leave the Earth better off than it was before you came along. Water-conscious gardening is one way to make a difference — whether you live where water is plentiful or where drought and gardening go hand in hand.

Pennington Gardening • June 2023

How to Grow Your Own Wildflower Meadow

For some people, thoughts of wildflower meadows evoke rolling hills covered with blooms. There's nothing wrong with that, but who said meadows have to be huge? Regardless of your yard's size — from spacious to cozy — you can enjoy your own wildflower meadow and boost biodiversity in your neighborhood. That meadow garden that only you can imagine? It's yours. Get ready for swaying wildflowers and pollinators galore.

Pennington Gardening • May 2023

How to Nurture Your Soil with Regenerative Gardening

If you chat with growers on your farmers market treks, you've probably heard a lot about regenerative agriculture — a way of growing that focuses on nurturing and restoring soil. For local-food growers focused on organic and natural farming, soil health is key to their success. But you may not know that their soil-regenerating approach can yield the same amazing benefits in your yard and garden.

Pennington Gardening • April 2023

Sustainable Lawn Alternatives

Ready to abandon the clean, green square and create a yard that celebrates your unique point of view? Nothing against turfgrass, conventional lawns and the people who love them. Healthy grass is beautiful, but your world is about options. There are other, even more sustainable ways to work with Mother Nature, conserve resources and have an amazing yard.

Pennington Gardening • April 2023

How to Plan and Plant the Perfect Front Yard Garden

Can your friends tell which house is yours before they ever see your house number? If your answer isn't yes — and you wish it was — it's time for something fresh out front. Lots of people have preconceptions about what front yards should look like. But now that you have a yard to call your own, why shouldn't it be as unique as you and your family?

Pennington.com • October 2022

How to Prepare Soil for Grass Seed

When prepping your yard for a grass seed project, it pays to look beyond the surface to the soil underneath your future lawn. Healthy soil is the key to beautiful, lush grass — when soil health suffers, your lawn does the same.

Pennington.com • June 2022

Firescaping: How to Protect Against Wildfires With Fire-Resistant Plants

Some regions are more prone to these dangers, but unplanned ground fires can occur no matter where you live. This B2C story for Pennington covers how to your home less vulnerable by landscaping with wildfire and fire-wise plants in mind.

GardenTech.com • July 2021

How to Grow Succulents from Leaves and Stem Cuttings​

With their captivating colors and uncommon forms, succulents are taking the world by storm. Not only are they beautiful, these low-maintenance plants are simple to propagate from leaves and stem cuttings — even if you've never propagated a plant before.

GardenTech.com • July 2021

How to Grow Sunflowers

It's hard to look at a sunflower and not feel happiness take hold. These simple-to-grow beauties are perfect for everyone, from beginners and kids to experienced gardeners. The hardest part of growing sunflowers is deciding which ones to grow. So jump on board, get ready for sunny blooms and follow these basics for sunflower fun.

GardenTech.com • July 2021

How to Plant, Grow and Harvest Zucchini and Squash

Even if you are planning your first garden, your zucchini crop can be the talk of the neighborhood with a few seeds and sunny summer weather. Growing a bumper crop of zucchinis or other types of summer and winter squash is not only simple — you'll also have plenty of extra squash to share.

GardenTech.com • July 2021

How to Grow and Care for a Dwarf Peach Tree

Growing a healthy, productive peach tree is an adventure. Despite the extra TLC these trees need, one juicy bite of a homegrown peach makes it all worthwhile. With dwarf peach trees — just 8 to 10 feet tall — you can enjoy beautiful spring blossoms, green foliage and delicious full-size fruit in a manageable size perfect for backyards.

Pennington.com • November 2020

How to Prepare Your Garden for Winter

Taking extra time and energy to winterize your garden helps keep it healthy and protected while you wait for the spring planting season.

Pennington Fertilizer • July 2020

The Well-Fed Garden: Perennials

Woven through borders and foundation plantings, perennials can be your landscape's crowning glory. Annuals and their static blossoms have their place, but perennials reward gardeners with a symphony of ever-changing color and bloom year after year.

Pennington Fertilizer • July 2020

The Gardeners Guide to Gorgeous Hydrangeas

From dazzling displays of landscape color to chaste white blooms tucked in bridal bouquets, hydrangeas win hearts worldwide. At once trendy and timeless, these easy-care romantic shrubs can take your garden to luxuriant new heights.

Pennington Fertilizer • July 2020

How to Grow Citrus Trees in Containers

Fresh-picked, homegrown citrus isn't a luxury reserved for gardeners in sunny, tropical zones. You can grow citrus trees in containers and enjoy their fragrance and zesty fruit even in wintry northern homes.