Flowers

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

Close-up of a flower bed with densely blooming annual flowers growing in the shade, featuring graceful trailing stems with small, lance-shaped green leaves supporting clusters of tiny, vibrant blue flowers with two upper petals and three lower petals.

Flowers

11 Best Annual Flowers for Shade

Flowering annuals in the shade brighten garden corners and offer the opportunity to change up the display. Depending on your level of shade, there’s a broad range of choices. While deep shade is more limited, you can still achieve color through flowers and dynamic foliage. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores blooming annuals for shade to enrich this season's display.

Close-up of blooming supertunias with large, delicate, trumpet-shaped flowers with gently ruffled petals in white and pink shades against a background of spreading stems covered in dense foliage with soft, slightly wavy-edged leaves.

Flowers

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Supertunias

Are you looking for one of the easiest and most productive flowers to grow? If so, you may want to try growing Supertunias. In this article, plant expert Matt Dursum shows you how to plant, grow, and care for these majestic flowers.

A dense cascade of magenta and yellow flowers spilling over a hanging basket.

Flowers

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Wave Petunias

Are you looking for the ultimate spreading flower for your garden beds or containers? Wave petunias are a wonderful hybrid that will transform your garden. In this article, plant expert Matt Dursum covers how to plant, grow, and care for these stunning bloomers.

Native wildflowers blooming in Montana, tall, slender stems with deeply lobed green leaves and large drooping velvety wine-fire petals surrounding a dark, cone-shaped central disk.

Flowers

15 Native Wildflowers for Montana Gardens

Montana’s native wildflowers sway in the warm season landscape and buzz with activity from beneficial insects. With showy blooms and textures that offer multi-season interest, they withstand cold winters and offer numerous ecosystem benefits. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores the ornamental native blooms of Big Sky country to bring naturalized appeal.

The garden bed is full of more and more snowdrop blooms featuring thin green stems holding delicate, nodding white flowers with three outer petals and a green-marked inner cup, rising above narrow, grass-like leaves.

Flowers

5 Tips for More Snowdrop Blooms Every Year

Snowdrops beckon spring with easy elegance. The early-flowering bulbs invigorate the frosty landscape with fresh greens and pure white bells. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in how to grow our snowdrop colonies for added enchantment each year.

Delicate white native southeast spring wildflowers with pink veins bloom on slender stems, framed by lance-shaped green leaves.

Flowers

13 Spring Ephemeral Wildflowers Native to the Southeast

Spring in the southeastern United States is a magical time of year. Warm temperatures, early rains, and longer days cause wildflowers to burst into life. Join Tennessee resident and native plant enthusiast Briana Yablonski to learn about spring ephemerals native to the Southeast.

Close-up of blooming bright, spring ranunculus varieties, possessing vibrant purple and white bicolor flowers with overlapping, rounded petals surround a delicate yellow center, perched atop slender stems with deeply lobed, dark green leaves.

Flowers

17 Dreamy Ranunculus Varieties to Grow This Spring

With their ruffled petals and fuzzy stems, ranunculus make a gorgeous addition to the cutting garden, and anywhere else you plant them. Cut flower gardener Melissa Strauss has some incredible varieties to share that you are certain to adore.

A field of flowering lupines grown from seeds with tall, spiky flower clusters in shades of purple in dense whorls along the stems, rising above palmate green leaves with slender, pointed leaflets.

Flowers

How To Grow Lupines From Seed: 9 Expert Growing Tips

Lupines—favorite wildflowers with striking bell spikes and sweeps of warm season color—are easy to grow from seed in the right conditions. Seedlings get underway with a few steps to promote successful germination. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores how to grow lupines from seed for bright, perennial blooms.