Becca Badgett
Becca Badgett was a regular contributor to Gardening Know How for ten years. Co-author of the book How to Grow an EMERGENCY Garden, Becca specializes in succulent and cactus gardening.
Latest articles by Becca Badgett
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Cosmos Care Made Simple: Expert Guide To Growing Cosmos
Growing pretty osmos flowers can be as simple as scattering a few seeds. A tall, brightly colored annual, cosmos can reseed and bloom year after year.
By Becca Badgett
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Grow Bachelor Buttons: How To Care For Cornflowers
How to grow bachelor buttons
By Becca Badgett
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Petunias: Complete Plant Care And Growing Guide
With loads of trumpet or funnel-shaped blooms, prolific petunias are a favorite bedding plant due to their low-maintenance nature and cheerful colors.
By Becca Badgett
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How To Grow And Care For Dusty Miller In The Garden
Dusty miller has silvery-gray foliage that’s wooly and soft, and adds a lacy, distinctive touch to any bed, border or garden.
By Becca Badgett
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Best Astilbe Care for Feathery Summer Blooms
Delicate flowers each year makes astilbe care a pleasure. Plant different varieties for a longer bloom season and enjoy their graceful presence in your garden.
By Becca Badgett
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What Keeps Jasmine Plant From Flowering and What You Can Do
If your jasmine plant is not flowering you’re missing out on the best thing about it. Check your growing conditions and get that plant blooming again!
By Becca Badgett
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How To Grow Beautiful Asters in Your Garden
Sweet, old-fashioned aster flowers will fill your garden spaces with color in late summer and fall, and their small daisy-like flowers are a perfect addition for beauty and pollinators.
By Becca Badgett
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Rose Of Sharon, A Complete Care And Growing Guide
The lovely, old-fashioned Rose of Sharon is a delight to grow with abundant colorful flowers that bloom into fall. Grow it as a shrub or a tree.
By Becca Badgett
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Regional Garden Tasks – Southern Gardening In September
As summer draws to an end, we think of clean-up in the garden and get ready for winter days that are soon to arrive. Plan your September garden chores for the southeast.
By Becca Badgett
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Getting Rid Of Chinese Privet. How To Kill Chinese Privet Shrubs
Chinese privet weeds have begun springing up in forests and other areas where it has overtaken native plants.
By Becca Badgett
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Shamrock Houseplants: How To Grow A Potted Shamrock Plant
The potted shamrock plant is an attractive indoor plant. So what is a shamrock plant? Read this article to find out more about growing and caring for shamrock plants in the home.
By Becca Badgett
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Asparagus Fern: Complete Plant Care And Growing Guide
By Becca Badgett
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Meyer Lemon Tree: Complete Care And Growing Guide
Growing a Meyer lemon tree can be a heady experience for a gardener. It’s a pleasure to pluck a beautiful tart lemon from a tree that you’ve grown and nurtured in the garden or a container.
By Teo Spengler
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Coreopsis (Tickseed): Complete Plant Care & Growing Guide
Planting coreopsis gives gardens, containers, and borders a bright splash of color, and invites our beloved pollinators to come for a visit. Easy to plant, they are reliable and colorful.
By Becca Badgett
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How To Grow Gazania Treasure Flowers: Care Of Gazania Flowers
Gazania treasure flowers are beautiful and so easy to care for. They thrive in a wide variety of weather soils and weather conditions, and provide an interesting and colorful groundcover.
By Becca Badgett
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Foxglove Care Guide: How To Grow Foxglove Flowers
The foxglove flower, while toxic, is a beautiful stately ornamental addition to any garden and an easy-growing self-seeding plant. Just don’t ingest it or grow it where children or pets might play.
By Becca Badgett
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How To Grow Periwinkle Or Vinca Minor
Periwinkle flowers can fill in as a pretty ground cover with bright purple-blue flowers, but it's important to be aware of the periwinkle’s invasive tendencies.
By Mary Ellen Ellis
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How To Make Natural Fungicide That Won’t Hurt Plants
Stirring up a batch of homemade natural fungicide can go a long way in treating various garden problems and is more environmentally friendly than other options.
By Mary Ellen Ellis