Gardening Planning
Prepare for your next gardening project by discovering our planning ideas & tips.
Dahlias: Late Summer's Drama Queens
In a showstopping array of colors, sizes, and shapes, dahlias can play a leading role in your garden's end of season show.
All About Groundcover
Whether you’re looking for the best low maintenance or fastest growing groundcover for your lawn, these plants offer solutions to barren spots and spaces.
Use Colorful Coleus To Perk Up Any Garden Corner
Learn how to grow and care for coleus plants. We've rounded up tips and ideas for using these colorful, hardy plants in your garden.
8 Essential Elements for Planning a Cottage Garden
Now's the time to sketch out your plan for beautiful results in the spring. Here's how to get started
Best Plants for a Cottage Garden
Carry your home's cottage style through the garden with these flower options
Gardening Tips From a Pro, Q&A Style
A popular TV expert offers gardening tips and tricks based on a lifetime of digging, planting, caring for, and feeding his own garden.
Grow a Lush Shade Garden With Hostas
These leafy perennials are showy, shade tolerant, and a cinch to grow—and new varieties offer a wider-than-ever range of leaf color, size, and texture. Read this article to learn how to pick and plant them to create a sensational landscape.
How To Choose and Plant Hydrangeas
Landscaping contractor Roger Cook shows you how to choose and plant hydrangeas and get their flowers to bloom every year.
Grow Fruits and Vegetables Anywhere
Uncover some smart strategies that will let you raise your own fruit and vegetable harvest in any size outdoor space.
9 Clean-Air Plants for Your Home
Learn about everyday houseplants that do double duty clearing out pollutants in your indoor air.
Everything to Know About Planting Spring-Blooming Bulbs
Planting bulbs in the fall is an easy way to get a vibrant, well-decorated yard. This guide tells you how to plant bulbs in your garden.
Carts and Wheelbarrows
From trash to topsoil, everything travels more quickly when you stick a wheel underneath it
How To Get More Plants at No Cost by Propagating
Grow additional specimens from those you already have to fill out your garden beds or share with friends—for free.
Best Garden Flowers You Can Use for Color All Summer
If you’re looking for the best flowers that offer vibrant color all summer long, check out these no-fail, flowering plants.
Grow a Healthy Vegetable Garden
The benefits of vegetable gardening go way beyond cutting food costs. Here's a guide to planning, planting, and relishing your own backyard harvest
How to creatively Place Pots To Transform Your Garden
A landscape designer's top 7 tips for incorporating plant containers to creatively transform your garden's look and feel.
Best Plants for Colorful Foliage
Looking to add more color to your garden? Our guide details the best plants with colorful foliage to help brighten up your outdoor space.
The Sustainable Garden
A homeowner turns her humble backyard into a sustainable garden filled with food, flowers, and a few farmland friends
Shrub-Type Roses
Explore different long-lasting shrub-type roses and learn about their popular characteristics in this guide.
Easy Care Roses: A Guide To Low-Maintenance Blooms
Far from finicky, many shrub-type roses bloom all summer long with very little fuss. Here are some top choices for flower borders, hedges, and containers.
A Guide To Cold-Weather Plants for Winter Gardening
Don't retire your gardening gear just because it's cold—pot up some cold-weather plantings to brighten your home's exterior.
Garden Hand Tools
Choosing and using tough, reliable tools that will take a beating in your yard.
Plant in Pots: Selection, Arrangement, and Care
We'll show you how to grow a container garden by creating pleasing arrangements and maintaining your plants year-round.
Foundation Plants: Design Ideas For Beautiful Landscaping
Looking to hide your foundation or just liven up your yard? Consider these plants and shrubs to keep your home beautiful year-round.
Winter Plant Tip: Buy Ugly
Dormant bare-root plants make for a wise cold-weather purchase
Drought-Resistant Ornamental Grasses
These ornamental grasses aren't only easy on the eyes, they're easy on the water bill, too
Drought-Resistant Perennials That are Perfect for Your Garden
Your garden doesn't have to be a water hog. Use these drought-resistant perennials to make your garden beautiful and conserve water.
Drought-Resistant Annuals That are Perfect for Your Garden
Save water and plant drought-resistant annuals. These hardy plants thrive in dry areas and are a great low-maintenance add to your garden.
Mulch Materials
This gardening essential not only neatens up your yard, it also helps conserve water and discourages weeds.
Made for the Shade: A Guide to Thriving Low-Light Gardens
Shady spots in your yard don't have to be empty. Learn everything you need to know about planting a shade garden in this guide.
How To Lay Sod in 7 Easy Steps
Want a fantastic lawn, fast? From costs and tools to the best times to plan the project, learn how to lay sod in just a few days.
Get Ready for Fall Planting
There's still plenty to do in the garden! Now is actually the best time to spruce up your yard