gardening

FILE - A bioretention garden built to collect rain runoff appears at a home in the Warrendale neighborhood of Detroit on May 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

An overgrown sedum with a hole in its center, a telltale sign that a plant is in need of division, appears on Long Island, N. Y., on Sept. 22, 2026, (Jessica Damiano via AP)

Pink Homecoming mums appear in full bloom at Longwood Gardens' annual Chrysanthemum Festival in Kennett Square, Pa., on Nov. 9, 2023. (Candie Ward/Longwood Gardens via AP)

Marisa Mender-Franklin poses for a picture on Thursday, July 23, 2026, in one of the properties that she crowdsourced for free to plant flowers for her florist shop in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Kristin M. Hall)

FILE - A bumblebee lands on a rose blossom at a horticultural exhibition in Erfurt, Germany, on June 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, File)

Kale appears in a partly shady foundation bed on Long Island, N.Y., on June 11, 2026. (Jessica Damiano via AP)

FILE - Marine One, with President Barack Obama aboard, is framed by flowers in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, on April 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

This undated image provided by Hudson Valley Seed Co. shows a container of candy-sweet Sungold cherry tomatoes. (Hudson Valley Seed Co. via AP)

This image provided by Proven Winners shows Supertunia Mini Vista® Pink Cloud®, a new petunia variety for 2026. (Proven Winners via AP)

FILE - Compost made from decomposed green kitchen scraps, yard litter and garden waste, appears in New Market, Va., on March 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Dean Fosdick, File)

FILE - Volunteers place mulch around a tree at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center Martinez Arena in Griffith Park in Los Angeles on July 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

Indoor-grown microgreens are harvested on Long Island, N.Y., on Jan. 29, 2024. (Jessica Damiano via AP)