Gardening

All about gardening - we have many in-depth guides about edibles, ornamentals, houseplants, and much more. We provide answers for your garden issues!

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Cacti & Succulents

6 Christmas Cactus Types Worth Collecting

If you like Christmas cacti, you’ll be delighted to know there are varieties with different colors. That means you can collect Christmas cactus types of multiple kinds! Here, seasoned gardener Sarah Jay covers 5 types you should pop into your collection the next time you get a chance.

A dense blanket of ground cover plants bloom with tiny clustered flowers in white, deep magenta, and purple among bright green foliage.

Ornamental Gardens

13 Ground Cover Plants That Bloom Profusely

Add tons of beautiful color and pollinator power with flowering groundcovers. These wonderful plants bloom profusely, cheering up the garden and improving the soil, and fostering wildlife. Gardening expert Melissa Strauss shares some of the most floriferous groundcovers for your garden.

A dense groundcover of bright green succulent leaves topped with magenta-pink daisy-like flowers blooming in a coastal garden.

Flowers

15 Types of Flowers for Coastal Gardens

Planting a garden in a coastal region has its challenges, but there are some wonderful flowers that thrive in this environment. Join Florida gardener Melissa Strauss for some beautiful cultivars that love the beach as much as you do!

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Flowers

15 Types of Flowers to Grow in Your Rock Garden

Rock gardens offer lasting solutions to challenging sites. They call on durable plants with versatility across conditions, including xeric sites and hot and cold temperatures, depending on the situation. Lean sites don’t mean less color, with rugged flowering perennials ready to brighten the arrangement with multi-season appeal. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe highlights flowers that soften the rockery with high ornament.

Branching chestnut tree limbs hold long, serrated green leaves and spiky burrs hanging from its branches, each burr enclosing glossy brown nuts.

Nut Trees

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Chestnut Trees

Don’t let the chestnut blight prevent you from growing these trees! There are blight-resistant varieties that thrive in U.S. gardens. Harvest homegrown chestnuts and enjoy the shade from their dense, leafy canopies. Native plant gardener Jerad Bryant offers guidance on planting, growing, and caring for chestnut trees.

Vibrant pink-purple flowers with raised orange centers stand tall on sturdy stems, blooming across a sunlit prairie garden.

Flowers

18 Types of Flowers for Prairie Gardens

Prairie gardens abound with blooming perennials for multiseason appeal and years of recurrent color. They offer site enrichment like soil improvement and forage and shelter resources for pollinators, birds, and other wildlife. Explore a diversity of prairie flowers to incorporate into our home landscapes with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

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Ornamental Gardens

How to Grow Foxtail Ferns in Pots and Containers

The graceful, erect plumes of feathery foliage make the foxtail fern a winning garden plant. It’s a stunning specimen that grows well both indoors and outdoors, and it thrives in containers. Learn how to pot and care for your foxtail fern alongside fern grower Jerad Bryant.

Red Tea-Oil Camellia blooms are one of flowers survive winter, appearing to be covered win white frost placed somewhere with warm sunlight

Flowers

31 Flowers that Will Survive Winter

Looking for cold-hardy blooms? Try one of these 31 flowers that will survive the winter. We include woody shrubs, tough annuals, and herbaceous perennials that fill the garden with blooms during the cool months. Join longtime gardener Jerad Bryant in discovering these beautiful, productive, and vigorous winter flowers.