Growing flowers can be a challenge for new and old gardeners alike. Check out our flower growing guides to learn how to get beautiful blooms in your garden.
Ever wondered if there was a heart-shaped flower that you could give to your loved one? Well, look no further, because bleeding heart flower produces strings of up to twenty …
Read moreBleeding Heart Flower: How to Care For Dicentra Spectabilis
Begonias are hugely popular plants among gardeners. These plants produce tons of colorful flowers and vivid foliage. Stunning as bedding plants or in hanging baskets, these plants can be easy …
Are you looking for ground cover plants? Because oh, are there a huge number of these plants available. They range in size from only an inch or two to nearly …
One of my favorite flowers, bachelor buttons are sometimes called cornflowers. And it’s from there that the color “cornflower blue” derives its name! Also called basket flowers, blue bonnets, blue …
Read moreBachelor Buttons: Cornflowers And Blue Caps To Brighten Your Beds
Once upon a time, the Jacob’s ladder plant was called the “charity plant”, although it shouldn’t be confused with the Mahonia species that also bears that common name. It’s also …
Read moreJacob’s Ladder Plant: Growing Polemonium Caeruleum At Home
The humble marigold is often the favorite flower of vegetable gardeners, and there’s great reason: marigolds help to keep many different pests at bay. They flower near-continually from late spring …
Read moreMarigolds: Pleasing, Prolific Flowers That Naturally Repel Pests
In shades of white, pink, red, purple and blue, phlox is an incredibly popular, brilliantly-flowered ornamental plant. Whether it’s creeping phlox spreading out to become a beautiful ground cover, or …
Read moreCreeping Phlox, Mounding Phlox: Easy To Grow Perennial Plants
Carnations, sweet william, pinks! There’s such a wide diversity of dianthus plants out there, all of which are beloved by gardeners for their frilly flowers and their green foliage. But …
Read moreDianthus Dreams: Caring For Carnations, Sweet Williams, and Pinks
Black eyed susan or brown-eyed susan, coneflower or Gloriosa daisy. These names describe the Rudbeckia species of plants. This relative of the sunflower grows both wild and in garden settings, …
Read moreBlack Eyed Susan: How To Grow And Care For Rudbeckia Plants
We all want to encourage pollinators to populate our gardens. After all, without those pollinating insects, we don’t have flowers or produce! And so, to draw beneficial insects to our …
In previous centuries, orchids were a real rarity. Orchid hunters would head off on perilous voyages to tropical areas and bring these delicate flowers back home for wealthy households. Orchids …
There are hundreds of different species in the passionflower family, all of them absolutely gorgeous. Aside from their beauty, they have a whole host of medicinal benefits that make them …
Read morePurple Passion Flower (Passiflora Incarnata) Care and Benefits