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Ornamental Gardens

Learn how to cultivate beautiful ornamental gardens and how to troubleshoot common pests, diseases, and growing problems!

Several clusters of vibrant fuchsia-pink, bell-shaped flowers, each with a contrasting paler throat, bloom densely on slender stems amidst lush green foliage — perfect examples of shrubs with summer flowers.

Shrubs

13 Shrubs With Stunning Summer Flowers

Flowering shrubs bring a special kind of blooming power into your landscape that trees and herbaceous plants just can't do. Join gardening expert Melissa Strauss to look at 13 gorgeous shrubs that bring tons of flowers to eye-level in the summer.

An area in the garden with easy late summer perennials, with surrounded deep-green foliage placed somewhere sunny

Ornamental Gardens

13 Easy Perennials You Can Plant in July

For a late-summer garden bursting with life and beauty, perennials are the best way to achieve it. In this article, gardening expert Melissa Strauss discusses some easy late summer perennials you can add to keep things looking lively in the heat.

Lush flowering hedge with glossy green leaves and clusters of small pink blossoms, offering vibrant seasonal color and inspiration for charming hedge ideas.

Ornamental Gardens

11 Unconventional Hedge Ideas for Your Landscape

Hedges don’t have to be plain, boring, and green. A surprising range of plants can make ideal hedges! Any species that tolerates habitual pruning works well, though some are better suited than others. Pacific Northwest grower Jerad Bryant shares 11 unconventional hedge ideas for your landscape.

A bush with a chance for the petunias stop blooming, possibly due to excessive heat and other problems

Flowers

7 Reasons Your Petunias Stopped Blooming

If your petunia stops blooming, it may need an adjustment or two in its growing conditions to restore its full-flowered stems. The vigorous annuals perform throughout the summer, though they take a break when the going gets tough. Gardening expert Katheirne Rowe explores reasons why petunias stop flowering and ways to boost the blooms.

Vibrant red and yellow daisy-like flowers with fringed petals, supported by slender green stems and narrow lance-shaped leaves, showing the flowers you can direct sow in July.

Flowers

13 Flowers You Can Direct Sow in July

It's July, and there's no time to waste in the garden. If you want to plant some late-season flowers, now is the time to do it! Gardening expert Melissa Strauss has the lowdown on some beautiful flowers you can easily direct sow in the garden this month.

A small firecracker bush with dainty blooms, appearing white with vibrant pink ends

Ornamental Gardens

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Firecracker Bush

Firecracker bush explodes with color! Its scarlet-red blooms fill the late summer garden with pomp and circumstance. Drought-tolerant, hardy, and low-maintenance, this U.S. native shrub excels in warm regions. Learn how to cultivate it alongside native plant gardener Jerad Bryant.

Bright yellow pea-like flowers cluster along slender green stems with fine, lance-shaped leaflets.

Shrubs

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Siberian Pea Shrubs

Siberian pea shrubs are ruggedly adaptable and a fit for challenging sites. Their durability, easy growth, and hardiness make them a contender for spots where other plants may not thrive. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores the low-maintenance, hardy shrub and its optimal growing conditions.