
Gardening
Best Plants for a Cottage Garden
Carry your home's cottage style through the garden with these flower options
How to Build a Spigot-Handle Garden Tool Rack
Organize your garden gear with this fun and functional tool rack made from old wood molding, flea-market spring clips, and brightly colored outdoor spigot handles
18 Tips for Decorating Your Garden
In this article, we'll explore 18 easy and impactful ways to transform your garden into an eclectic, purposeful, one-of-a-kind space.
DIY Privacy Planter Box With Privacy Screen
Use cedar and stock lumber to build a tall privacy planter box to spruce up and screen your backyard.
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.
How to Grow an Edible Flower Bouquet
This guide explains how to grow an edible flower garden with colorful blooms that can also be used in the kitchen.
How To Build a Raised Herb Garden Planter
Four deck posts and a few boards are all you need to create this practical and compact raised herb garden planter.
Everything You Need To Know About Pruning and Dividing Plants
From daylilies to hydrangeas, here's our best pro advice to help you snip back and multiply your garden staples with confidence.
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.
Best Foundation Plants for Stellar Curb Appeal
Plantings that ring the base of your home should do more than just conceal the foundation. Read our foolproof planting tips.
How To Winterize Raised Beds
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shares his secrets for readying a raised garden bed for the winter.
Using Rain Gardens To Keep Waterways Pollution-Free
In our guide, we'll explain how you can create a rain garden to protect your waterways and the environment.
How to Build a Rain Garden to Filter Runoff
Read our step-by-step guide on how to build a rain garden, an eco-friendly way to handle stormwater runoff while beautifying your yard.
How to Make and Use Compost Tea
Read our guide to learn how to make and use compost tea so that you can improve the look and health of your lawn.
How to Get Late-Summer Color in Your Garden
A strategic mix of annuals and perennials yields a brilliant garden when the heat is really on
How To Edge a Garden Bed
Watch this video to learn how to create a natural edge on your garden bed with This Old House landscape expert Roger Cook.
A Front Yard Becomes a Community Garden
When a local community garden lost one of its two plots, TOH reader Angela Baker stepped in, converting her family's yard into 31 fruit and vegetable beds for everyone to share
How To Make DIY Plant Covers for Winter
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shares tips and tricks for keeping plants and shrubs safe this winter with DIY protectors.
How To Make an Herb Planter From a Wagon
Read our DIY guide on how to create a stylish herb planter from an old wagon and bring fresh, homegrown herbs to your doorstep.
Top Tips for Growing Gorgeous Hydrangeas
Hydrangeas are a vibrant flower that can add a pop of color to any garden. Read our top tips to keeping them healthy and thriving.
How to Sod Your Lawn
Looking to spruce up your lawn and create a gorgeous outdoor space? Here's what you need to know to get the job done right.
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.
How To Drill Drainage Holes in Planters
Follow our step-by-step guide for drilling perfect drainage holes in planters to maintain healthy plants and prevent water damage.
How To Plant a Bamboo Screen
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook helps a pair of homeowners select and plant a privacy screen using bamboo plants.
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.
How To Divide Overgrown Perennials
Learn how to separate the root balls of vigorously growing perennial plants to get healthier flowers with more blooms.
Carts and Wheelbarrows
From trash to topsoil, everything travels more quickly when you stick a wheel underneath it
Homemade Plant Tags With Pizzazz
These creative, reader-made plant tags leave those boring old plastic stakes you get at the nursery in the dust
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.
From Bare Yard to Flowery Garden
For one novice gardener, a blank-slate backyard became a canvas for a series of color-packed flower beds built over time