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If your bathroom doesn’t feature built-in shelving but you’re craving a bit more storage space, you can always install open shelving to better accommodate your needs. No matter the types of shelves you have in your space, though, you will want to be thoughtful when it comes to styling them. “Decorating bathroom shelves can add interest, depth, and dimension to a primary bath, and help to create the overall mood,” Hannah Rasa, of InSite Builders & Remodeling, says....

As with most re-organizing projects, begin by emptying the contents of your closet and drawers and clean both thoroughly. Purge any items that you no longer need and sort items into categories. Once you get to the long-sleeve shirts category, our folding methods will provide you with tips and tricks that’ll instantly transform your closet. Let’s get folding! Fold It Vertically Fold It Into a Rectangle Roll It Fold It Into a Brick Shape Folding Tips and Tricks To ensure every shirt is folded identically for a neat and uniform look, consider purchasing a folding board....

Mealybugs are tiny insects, about 1/8 inch in length, but their color and clustering habit make them easy to find on garden plants. Most common mealybug species are white and have filaments covering their bodies and giving them a fuzzy or hairy appearance. An exception is the hibiscus mealybug, which is pinkish-brown and lacks the fringe. Mealybugs feed on garden plants by inserting their sharp mouthparts into the leaves and stems to suck sap....

Steinbeck was right. If you have never seen a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in person in its native habitat, it is something to put on your bucket list. These beautiful giants will grow to only 100 feet tall in cultivation, but ancient trees growing in the wild commonly reach 300 in height. Even at a modest 100 feet, these unique trees are something you need to see for yourself to experience....

With its loose, leathery skin, this is an easy-to-peel fruit with 10 to 12 segments of delicate and juicy flesh. Grown from seed, it can take up to eight years before you will reap your first harvest, but the timing will be significantly decreased if you plant a grafted tree—which is how it is normally sold commercially. For best results, plant your satsuma tree in early spring. Location is also important....

Acanthus means bract, which are modified leaves that are often more colorful than the actual flowers. They help to attract pollinators. The botanical name for bear’s breeches, Acanthus mollis, comes from the thorny look of their purple bracts. You can expect to see flowers on this plant from late spring to early summer. Although there are about 30 species of acanthus, only a couple are commonly grown as garden plants....

If you don’t mind spending a bit of time pruning it, you can turn your dwarf jade into a bonsai tree. Or, you can grow it in a hanging basket and let it sprawl. When the rare blooms appear, they are found at the branch tips. Normally purchased as an already-established potted plant, dwarf jade is a very slow-growing but long-lived species; a small plant may take several years to reach a foot in height, but there are bonsai specimens that are more than a century old....

Leadwort is known for its hardiness and ability to tolerate a variety of growing conditions, and also because it grows fast without being seriously invasive. Leadwort is best planted from nursery stock in the spring after the threat of frost has passed. Don’t delay planting, as leadwort needs a full growing season to get its roots properly established in the garden to survive the winter months. While some leadwort varieties like Cape leadwort (Plumbago auriculata) are toxic to humans and pets, Dwarf plumbago (Ceratostigma plumaginoides) is not....

The Monstera pinnatipartita is one such out-of-the-ordinary example. This evergreen climbs with epiphytic aerial roots and can grow up to 2 feet a year if indoor growing conditions are optimal. What sets this rare species apart is that the fenestration extends further up the dark green, heart-shaped leaves than you see in some of the more familiar monsteras. Despite their show-stopping appearance, these plants are surprisingly easy-to-care-for. While mature plants certainly have the wow factor, the smaller foliage on juvenile plants is solid rather than fenestrated....

Native to Central America, red button ginger is a flowering ginger, including 52 genera and more than 1,300 species. Space each rhizome at least 18 to 24 inches apart when planting—doing so reduces the need to divide plants in the future. It looks great alongside plants with similar growing conditions, such as mondo grass, bush lily, hosta, Brunfelsia, and aralia. Light Red button ginger grows in partial sun or partial shade....

Rupturewort is generally planted in the spring from nursery flats or divisions. It is a slow-growing perennial that spreads gradually without becoming invasive. Light Providing you don’t plant rupturewort in full shade, it should do well. It prefers a full sun position but can also spread well in partial shade. Soil If you have large areas of infertile soil, which other more delicate plants struggle to grow on, rupturewort can be a great addition....

If you already have a white willow, you can learn to care for your tree below, but if you decide on a new tree, you will be better served finding a native tree with the same characteristics or one of the cultivars. Light Choosing a place in your landscape with ample sun is important for the health of your tree. White willows do not do well in shade. You will want to provide it with at least partial sun at the minimum, but your willow will live its best life in a bright sunny spot where it can soak up plenty of light....

Here is an overview of some of the most common types of anthracnose. Anthracnose on Deciduous Trees Shade trees commonly affected by anthracnose are ash, dogwood, elm, hickory, maple, oak, sycamore, and walnut. The fungi that cause anthracnose vary depending on the tree species. Anthracnose can affect the buds of a tree early in the season before it has grown any leaves. When the buds or the tips of twigs die, it might look like frost injury, which can make it tricky to diagnose anthracnose at this stage....

However, if there is a dead or dying spot on your lawn, it is beneficial to know if it might be a disease or simply the neighbor taking the dog to its favorite spot. Identifying a lawn disease may also give you clues as to what is causing its presence and if there is anything you can do about it. Common Lawn Diseases There are numerous diseases that can creep up on the lawn if the proper conditions are present....