Gardening Planning

Carry your home's cottage style through the garden with these flower options

A popular TV expert offers gardening tips and tricks based on a lifetime of digging, planting, caring for, and feeding his own garden.

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.

Uncover some smart strategies that will let you raise your own fruit and vegetable harvest in any size outdoor space.

Learn about everyday houseplants that do double duty clearing out pollutants in your indoor air.

From trash to topsoil, everything travels more quickly when you stick a wheel underneath it

Grow additional specimens from those you already have to fill out your garden beds or share with friends—for free.

If you’re looking for the best flowers that offer vibrant color all summer long, check out these no-fail, flowering plants.

The benefits of vegetable gardening go way beyond cutting food costs. Here's a guide to planning, planting, and relishing your own backyard harvest

A landscape designer's top 7 tips for incorporating plant containers to creatively transform your garden's look and feel.

Looking to add more color to your garden? Our guide details the best plants with colorful foliage to help brighten up your outdoor space.

A homeowner turns her humble backyard into a sustainable garden filled with food, flowers, and a few farmland friends

Explore different long-lasting shrub-type roses and learn about their popular characteristics in this guide.

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.

Don't retire your gardening gear just because it's cold—pot up some cold-weather plantings to brighten your home's exterior.

Choosing and using tough, reliable tools that will take a beating in your yard.

We'll show you how to grow a container garden by creating pleasing arrangements and maintaining your plants year-round.

Looking to hide your foundation or just liven up your yard? Consider these plants and shrubs to keep your home beautiful year-round.

Dormant bare-root plants make for a wise cold-weather purchase

These ornamental grasses aren't only easy on the eyes, they're easy on the water bill, too

Your garden doesn't have to be a water hog. Use these drought-resistant perennials to make your garden beautiful and conserve water.

Save water and plant drought-resistant annuals. These hardy plants thrive in dry areas and are a great low-maintenance add to your garden.

This gardening essential not only neatens up your yard, it also helps conserve water and discourages weeds.

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.

There's still plenty to do in the garden! Now is actually the best time to spruce up your yard

Follow our guide for plant placement and ensure your garden is perfectly planned. We walk through plant selection, placement, and transplanting.

In this guide, we break down how to properly mulch your garden, and tell you why May is the best time of the year to do it.

Whether or not you are a green thumb, this guide will help you select and care for houseplants that will thrive in any home.

Treat yourself to your own homegrown tomatoes fresh from the vine by following our tips and tricks on how how to grow tomatoes perfectly.