Flower Gardening

Freshen up your flower garden with these expert recommendations, tips and ideas that can make any yard look like a million bucks.

Top 10 Fall Blooming Perennials for Your Garden

Welcome shorter days and longer nights with colorful blooming fall perennials that light up your late-season flower garden.


10 Purple Perennials to Plant for Beauty Each Year

These gorgeous purple perennials add rich flair to your garden. Find flowers for butterflies and bees, and plants for anywhere...


Top 10 Types of Dahlias to Grow

Dahlias are flower garden classics. Dazzling new types of dahlias are developed every year. Here are 10 of the most...


10 Prettiest Pink Perennial Flowers to Grow

These pink perennial flowers add a jolt of color to your garden. Discover colorful cultivars that attract bees, butterflies and...


Grow Garden Phlox for Jumbles of Fragrant Blooms

The sweet-smelling blooms of garden phlox draw in bees, butterflies and birds. Here's how to care for this gorgeous, fragrant...


Growing Lavender: Pick the Right Plants for Your Garden

Get expert instructions for growing lavender in your backyard or indoors. This fragrant perennial can thrive in many areas...


Top 10 Flashy Flowering Succulents to Grow

Think all succulents are boring and green? Think again! Flashy blooms adorn the funky foliage of these flowering succulents.


Top 10 Bold Burgundy Perennial Flowers

Like the finest of wines, these sultry garden stars are an intoxicating mix of drama and sophistication. Grow burgundy flowers...

Top 10 Flowering Perennials That Bloom All Summer

It can be tricky to find flowering perennials that bloom all through the season, but these picks are sure to...


6 Flowering Full Sun Desert Plants to Grow

Is your yard hot, hot, hot? Plants these flowering full sun desert plants that will grow and thrive even in...


Top 10 Full Sun Perennials That Thrive in Sunshine

These flowering full sun perennials are easy to grow and won't wilt under the summer sunshine. Plus, the hardworking plants...


How to Safely Transplant Perennials and Flowers

When is the best time for transplanting perennials? Almost any time of the year! Learn foolproof tips for replanting flowers.


Top 10 Black Annual and Perennial Plants

'The new black' is just black when it comes to the garden. Check out some of our favorite black perennial...


Knock Out Roses Are a Gardener’s Dream Come True

Discover the fascinating story about how Knock Out roses became the original and most popular low maintenance rose to grow.


Attract More Butterflies With Fuzzy Flowers

Fuzzy flower heads contain hundreds of tiny nectar-filled florets, attracting butterflies from near and far. See our favorite fuzzy blooms.


Easy Perennials That Anyone Can Grow

Gardening doesn't have to be difficult. Make growing plants simple by adding these resilient and easy perennials to your garden.


Roses Love Garlic: Here’s Why

Garlic protects roses from bugs and it can help prevent fungal diseases like blackspot. Plant garlic around the base of...

Top 10 Sunny Sunflower Varieties to Grow

Discover a whole new selection of these radiant seed-bearing blooms with our top picks of pretty sunflower varieties.


10 Best Daffodil Bulbs to Plant

From classic to quirky, daffodils are a fail-safe way to cheer up any garden. Plant these daffodil bulbs in fall...


Add Glamour to Your Yard With Bollywood Azalea

Roll out the red carpet for butterflies, bees and other pollinators with Bollywood azalea. Learn how to grow this flowering shrub.


Expert Garden Advice on Rabbit Resistant Flowers

Bunnies eating all of your blooms? Here's an expert's advice for the best rabbit resistant flowers and rabbit repellents.


Plant a Hanging Flower Basket in 5 Easy Steps

Add color to nearly any space by designing and planting hanging flower baskets brimming with gorgeous blooms and foliage.


Top 10 Gorgeous Cottage Garden Plants to Grow

Add classic cottage garden plants, like coneflowers, speedwell and bee balm, to create an easy to care for and...

Resilient Flowers: Top 10 Plants You Can’t Kill

Tough as nails, but these resilient flowers are pretty, too. You'll have a green thumb with the top 10 plants...


Iris Flower Types and Facts You Should Know

There’s more to this floral family than you know. Learn more about how to choose iris flower types and...


20 White Flowers to Make Your Garden Glow

Choose white flowers to give your shade garden extra impact, or for a yard that lights up with an eye-catching...


Rose Color Meanings: What You Should Know

Do you love roses? Learn about rose color meanings and how a gift of beautiful roses can communicate your true...


When Does a Red Spider Lily Bulb Bloom?

Learn about the red spider lily, when it blooms and how to best grow this plant. Also learn why your...


Tips For Growing Paperwhite Flowers Indoors

Need a winter gardening project? Grow paperwhite flowers indoors and you'll be rewarded with beautiful blooms in just a few...