Tall perennials add vertical interest and height to your borders and flower beds—and return year after year. Flowers that grow on tall stalks add a level to your borders, for example. Their varied colors, eclectic foliage
Looking to add some fall flowers to your garden? Here are my top 15 recommended fall flowers to plant in your garden for gorgeous blooms.
Add a Stinze bulb lawn (AKA stinzenplanten lawn, stinzen garden) to extend your garden season, it comes and goes before you even begin mowing.
Are you thinking about starting a cut flower garden, and have no idea where to start? I'll show you the process I go through when planning my cut flower garden each season.
These ten plants are suitable for a shallow garden if you follow these tips on how to design a thriving shallow garden.
These hardy perennials can thrive in part sun, full sun or shade, high heat or freezing temperatures, and still bloom beautifully every year.
The road to a beautiful lawn doesn’t have to be paved with a schedule of chemical treatments. There are several homegrown tips and techniques you can use to help your grass to grow lush and green this summer.
Cut and come again flowers are long blooming annuals that produce new stems all season long, rewarding the gardener with a bountiful harvest.
I am excited to share that The National Garden Bureau has chosen the allium as the bulb of the year! They pick one annual, one perennial, one bulb crop and one…
These hardy perennials can thrive in part sun, full sun or shade, high heat or freezing temperatures, and still bloom beautifully every year.
Want to skip the fertilizer and stop spending your weekends mowing? Here are the best low-maintenance, yet still attractive, alternatives to a grass lawn.
How to convert lawn to flower bed? We recently turned part of our backyard grass lawn to a flower bed, to add more gardening space and improve landscaping. So in this DIY project, I will share our entire process
Whether you want to reduce your grass lawn or replace it, there are lots of options for alternative eco-lawns including wildflowers, clovers, and fescue grass seed mixes.
Planting perennials in the fall is a simple way to enjoy a larger, more stunning garden for longer. Benefit from a colorful and vibrant garden all year.
Learn How to Grow Plumbago in your home and garden and invite a refreshing appeal of its beautiful flowers!
This list of perennial flowers that bloom all summer will give your garden color. Check for drought-resistant and deer-resistant options.
Read our complete guide to Foxglove flowers for everything you will ever need to know! Tips for planting and caring for "Digitalis purpurea"
Create an all-season perennial garden so that the blooms just keep on blooming! Enjoy three or four seasons of color and beauty throughout your yard by following our easy guide.
Growing zinnia flowers in your backyard has plenty of benefits: These simple, low-maintenance plants provide colorful, wow-worthy, oversized blooms—with sturdy stalks that make them a prime choice for cutting gardens and indoor arrangements.
Is there anything lovelier than a shade garden on a warm day? It's hard to beat!
These gorgeous winter plants and flowers are perfect if you have harsh cold weather late in the year. Stand out from the neighbors this year!
Phlox is a cottage garden mainstay with varieties that bloom from early spring into fall. It’s flowers come in nearly every hue imaginable, even hard-to-find blue.
Kat Von D has an all-black garden — take a tour of the spookiest flowers ever.
10 Beautiful Flowers to Start Growing from Seeds
Learn all you need to know about how to keep fall mums alive. These fall plants can be the star of your porches, yard, and patio. It just takes a little care to keep them stunning for months.
Plant these 15 best flowers to attract hummingbirds to your garden - so you can help support their populations, and enjoy the company!
Learn how to grow a tapestry lawn with our complete how-to guide, including what to plant and how to care for it. Also called a meadow lawn, this landscaping technique requires little to no maintenance to thrive.
Learn how to plant, grow, and care for Veronica (speedwell). Discover types suitable for containers, borders, rock gardens, and cut flowers.
Discover the best perennial garden plans to create a beautiful, low-maintenance garden that blooms year after year.
Looking for flowering climbers? Here are 10 of the best easy to grow climbing plants with beautiful flowers to brighten up your yard.
Wondering when to plant wildflowers? I wouldn't blame you! Wildflowers are one of the best-known, best-loved flowers around. They have a way about them, simply by just being free and easy. If you want to try to contain them, I've got all the tips you need to grow wildflowers successfully.
Few flowers offer more to love than long-blooming Dianthus. Pinks, carnations, and sweet williams are pretty, fragrant, and easy to grow. Read more now.
4 simple ways to arrange flowers and plants in your garden to get that beautiful layered look that you want... even if you're a beginner!
Flower Gardening 101 is not just for new gardeners, it's for both novices and masters and all those in between. Stop by and learn what you've been missing! You might just take away a flower gardening idea or two... or ten!
Free planting templatesI often find getting started is the hardest part of many projects. I was recently reminded how true that is for gardening when a Master Gardener from Newport News wrote to me about a fantastic project she is working on with her fellow gardeners: a "Getting Started" kit tailored specifically to Virginia coastal gardens. This sounds like a terrific idea and I hope to be able to share it when it is ready for prime time. In the meantime, her note jogged my memory about anoth
