Flowers

Flowers are not only beautiful, but help pollinators and beneficial bugs in the garden. Learn how to grow them with our guides.

Determining if orchid dead based on the appearance of the plant, having no blooms and long green leaves with a brown stem while the sunlight looks bright in the background

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Is My Orchid Dead? How to Tell if It Will Bloom Again

That sad-looking orchid sitting on your windowsill might not be as doomed as you think. Gardening expert Madison Moulton explains how to tell if your orchid is truly dead or just resting between bloom cycles, and what you can do to encourage reblooming.

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

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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!

Rock garden filled with a mix of flowering plants, groundcovers, and succulents displaying pink, white, and blue blooms alongside green and silvery textured foliage.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

Delicate snowdrop flowers bloom through the snow, showcasing bright white blooms in a winter garden.

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19 Flowers That Bloom in Winter

Winter is coming, but the season doesn’t have to be without blooming color. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe highlights winter flowers for vibrance, fragrance, and visual interest inside and out.

A close-up shot of a large composition of mounding purple colored flowers called the october skies asters

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How to Plant, Grow, and Care for ‘October Skies’ Asters

Asters bring a burst of late-season color, pollinator benefits, and versatility across site conditions. With sky blue blooms in late summer into fall, ‘October Skies’ is a top-performing cultivar and a rugged performer. It highlights the autumnal display with adaptable appeal. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores the merits of the easy-going wildflower brimming with high color.

Clusters of small, five-petaled true blue flowers with bright yellow centers in soft focus.

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Are Flowers Really Blue? 21 Best Plants with True Blue Blooms

Blue flowers are extremely rare in the plant kingdom. Many have the word blue in their name, despite their color being closer to purple or violet. A true blue flower is a sight to see in the home garden. Nurseryman and landscaper Jerad Bryant shares 21 of the best plants with true blue blooms.

A close-up shot of a small composition of white colored flowers, placed ins a white pot, near a window, showcasing how to overwinter potted mums

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How to Overwinter Potted Mums

Potted mums fill bare gardens in the fall with their flowers. They bloom at the end of the growing season, which is why they’re commonly available at stores at the end of summer. Though some mums are hardy, others are frost-tender. They need special care to survive the winter, especially if they’re growing in pots.

Almost not blooming mums form clumps with gray-green leaves and red buds beginning to open into orange-yellow flowers, set in an autumn flower bed covered with fallen leaves.

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Why Aren’t my Mums Blooming? 7 Fixes to Try

If your mum isn’t blooming as fall moves along, an adjustment or two in growing conditions can trigger buds to burst. There are also steps during the growing season that, with the right timing, promote the best blooms in autumn. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores why a mum isn’t blooming and how to boost the display to celebrate the season.