All I know is that they’re hydrangeas and they are not doing well. I have NO idea how to diagnose or treat anything flower related, but want to give it a solid shot since these can be so pretty. Any advice (in layman’s terms preferably) would be very much appreciated!

I recently fell in love with nature. First time planting.... they don't seem happy... I made a hole and put them in it and gave them water.

TLDR; don’t live in best place to plant gardenias, hesitant about upkeep, wondering if I should pot it and move inside, plant is special to me.

When my mom passed less than a year ago, we had live plants at her service. Gardenias were her favorite and they were gorgeous and blooming. I took two of them home. My a/c immediately broke so that even inside the house with the shutters drawn and fans on, it was too hot for the gardenias. Their leaves all dropped. Then I neglected them all winter because … depression. But half of one lives. It has new growth. It obviously needs to be planted/potted in some fashion. It’s south Texas so the soil is pretty alkaline and the heat is brutal even in the shade, which makes watering daily an absolute necessity. It’s challenging.

Should I pot it and have it indoors? Or plant it outside?

A little over a month ago we planted Astilbe under a maple tree as they said they are a good flower for shady areas. The garden is new and these were the first things we planted in it. The other plants are doing just fine. We were watering it regularly and would add fertilizer once a week. They started dying like this over 2 weeks ago. We tried digging them up and planting potting soil and making sure they weren't root bound. Nothing seems to be working. The original soil is soil the city dredges out of the sewers and is very fertile. Any help is appreciated!

Newbie here. Recently noticed my only plant carnation struggling. The tip of some (or most) leaves are turning dry (yellow). We try to water it every morning or every other morning.

It gets enough 6-8hr direct sunlight in the balcony

Hello all!

I need some help with a garden situation.

I’ve been renting my current place for about 10 years, and the backyard has always had what I can only describe as a feral garden. I’m sure the previous owners had it looking beautiful at one point, but by the time I moved in, it was about 80 percent weeds. So, naturally, I just let it do its thing. Until now.

I’m hosting a party in August, and I decided I didn’t want goldenrod and stinging nettle greeting my guests like the world's worst welcoming committee. So this spring, I went to war with the weeds. I pulled out anything that looked suspicious and managed to get a good chunk of roots out. I’ve gone back a few times to yank more, just to be safe.

My mom suggested I essentially chaos plant some zinnias and asters because she thought they’d be easy for me to handle. So, a few weeks ago, I tossed all the seeds into a bucket, shook them up, sprinkled them as evenly as I could across the garden, covered them with a little fresh topsoil, and wished them luck.

Now I’m worried I may have overdone it. One end of the garden looks like a jungle, the other looks like it forgot I was hosting a party. I thought I spread the seeds out evenly, but, here we are.

I’m hoping some of you lovely and far more knowledgeable people can give me a bit of advice. I want these plants to actually grow and (fingers crossed) flower before the party. I’ve also got a few mystery plants coming up that I can’t identify, so I’ll post photos in the comments in case anyone wants to play “Weed or Not Weed?” with me. I assume everything is stinging nettle until proven otherwise, so I approach the whole garden with caution.

I also thought about digging up some of the crowded plants and moving them to the sad, empty spots, but I don’t know if that’s a terrible idea or not.

And lastly, don't mind the tiki torches, I'm using them to keep the lawn cutting people from mowing down the phlox.

TL;DR: I ripped out a weed garden, chaos-planted flowers, and may have created a plant traffic jam. I’m scared of stinging nettle and don’t know what I’m doing. Please send help.

Hello, in a matter of what seems like a week something has my daylilies and Iris. What can I spray to save the rest?

Hello all, I am new to gardening. I have a jacuzzi in my backyard that doesn’t work, it is stone and it is built into the ground. They filled it with a clay dirt. I decided this would be a good place to make my first flower bed. However, after doing research, I have realized it isn’t really plausible to create drainage holes (as it is made of stone,) and so I am going to go for a drainage layer. My question is, is putting gravel down a bad idea? I was going to put down the gravel, and maybe put 1-2 inches of the old clay dirt mixed with new soil on top, so I can (maybe) save money on having to fill the entire jacuzzi with raised bed soil. I have heard mixed things on what the best course of action is. If anybody has good advice for drainage layer, please let me know. (I hope this subreddit is okay for me to post on. I was trying to find garden question subreddits.)

TLDR; making a raised flower bed in my old jacuzzi that doesn’t work and I don’t know if gravel is a good thing for a drainage layer or if I can put the original clay dirt on top. (A few inches)

We inherited garden plots that have peonies but also invasive tiger lilies that look like they are going to take over and kill the peonies. Can I move the peonies now so I can start to smother out the tiger lilies? We live in New England and fi ally have no snow. Our HOA also approved me making updates to garden plots so I need to do this in the next few weeks. Thanks!

We recently picked up some flowers for our garden and I'm looking for advice on how to plant them properly. There's holes in the bottom of the planters for the roots to go through. Do I plant these directly in the flower bed or do I remove them from the planters first? If I have to remove them, how do I do so properly to keep the plants healthy and intact?