Gardening
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
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.
12 Best Plants for Black Thumbs
Having trouble keeping your garden alive? Here are 12 low-maintenance plants ideal for gardeners with black thumbs.
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 Design an Entry Garden
Plan a front-yard landscape that boosts curb appeal and welcomes you home
Turn Salvaged Junk Into Garden Ornaments
Personalize your green acres with character-filled items scavenged from flea markets, thrift shops, even your own garage
How to Propagate Fall Perennials into Spring Plants
Many popular plants that shrivel in winter can be propagated from cuttings, put in pots, and grown indoors till the weather warms. Here's how
"Sandwich" Bulbs for Six Weeks of Blooms
Maximize your garden’s bloom time with this guide to planting "sandwiched" bulbs for a colorful, six-week spring show.
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.
How to Install an Automatic Sprinkler System
TOH landscape contractor shows you how to setup an in-ground sprinkler system to water your lawn automatically.
15 Fast-Growing Flowers for a Cutting Garden
Adorn your table with floral arrangements made from one of these 15 fast-growing, yard-transforming bloom varieties.
How to Make a Hypertufa Garden Trough
Make a garden trough with all the character (but none of the hassle) of carved stone
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.
How To Create a Modern Farmhouse-Style Potting Room
Transform your potting space with modern farmhouse style. Discover essential items, decor tips, and storage solutions for your potting room.
How To Build a Raised Vegetable Garden
Raised beds make vegetable gardening more convenient. Learn more about how to build them from This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook.
The Sustainable Garden
A homeowner turns her humble backyard into a sustainable garden filled with food, flowers, and a few farmland friends
How to Compost for a Nutrient Rich Home Garden
Learn how to create nutrient-rich compost for your garden, including aeration, moisture, temperature, materials, and more.
How To Divide Daylilies
Discover the benefits of dividing daylilies and get detailed instructions on how to do it properly for vibrant, healthy plants.
Digging Dos and Don'ts
Shoveling can be backbreaking labor. To avoid undue injury to yourself or the shovel, follow these helpful guidelines for digging.
How To Build Concrete-Block Raised Planting Beds
Create ideal growing conditions and easy-on-the-back gardening
All About Succulent Plant Types
These plants thrive on neglect, but that'll only make you love them more.
How To Create the Ultimate Butterfly Garden
Our guide shows you how to create a butterfly garden that draws vibrant butterflies with the right plants and design elements.
How To Create a Wildlife-Friendly Habitat Garden
Encourage beneficial creatures to come to your place and stay awhile. Turn your lawn into a wildlife-friendly habitat with our tips.
How To Clean and Maintain Your Outdoor Fountain
Without regular care, a bubbling fountain can quickly go from lovely to grubby. Follow these steps to properly care for your garden fountain.
Shrub-Type Roses
Explore different long-lasting shrub-type roses and learn about their popular characteristics in this guide.