Ornamental Gardens

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

A witchy garden featuring a variety of herbs, including tall, bushy basil plants with glossy purple and green leaves that have serrated edges.

Ornamental Gardens

15 Essential Plants For Your Witchy Garden

Watch out for witchy plants! These species offer spooktacular blooms and herbal benefits. They’re perfect for budding herbalists and experienced gardeners alike. Join seasoned grower Jerad Bryant on this tour of the 15 essential plants for your witchy garden.

A focused shot of a couple of toad lilies

Flowers

How to Plant, Grow, and Care For Toad Lilies

When the rest of the garden is starting to go dormant, jewel-like toad lilies are just starting to shine. Learn how to grow these exotic, yet deceptively easy to care for, fall-blooming perennials with biologist and garden enthusiast Lindsay Miller.

A decorative composition of multi-colored flowers of reblooming hydrangea

Shrubs

17 Best Varieties of Reblooming Hydrangeas You Can Plant Now

Autumn is the perfect time to add new hydrangeas to the garden for a summer spectacle. With varieties that repeat flower, we get months of color against a lush, leafy backdrop. Explore reblooming hydrangeas with gardening expert Katherine Rowe to make the most of the color-wielding picks.

A cluster of vibrant orange, yellow, red, and white flowers bloom with layered petals, surrounded by thick green foliage and soil beneath.

Flowers

15 Types of Ranunculus to Plant this Fall

If you want beautiful spring flowers, consider planting ranunculus corms this fall. Flower grower Briana Yablonski will share more than a dozen ranunculus varieties that will provide you with layers upon layers of delicate petals.

Large, heart-shaped leaves with dark green hues and lighter edges, growing in a dense, full clump with smooth, glossy surfaces and prominent veins.

Ornamental Gardens

Fall Hosta Care: 5 Expert Tips

By the time mid-fall rolls around, your hosta plants probably look worn and ragged. Now is the perfect time to give them some extra care and prepare them for winter and the new year ahead. Join gardening enthusiast Liessa Bowen for some simple pro tips on end-of-year hosta care.

The buttonbush shrub displays broad, lance-shaped green leaves with dense, ball-shaped white flowers covered in tiny protruding stamens.

Shrubs

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Buttonbush

Buttonbush is a loose, informal native that tolerates wide-ranging conditions and offers numerous ecological benefits. The unique globe blooms and showy seed pods bring lasting seasonal interest while attracting pollinators and songbirds. Explore adding buttonbush to your garden’s native palette with expert Katherine Rowe.

This colorado native wildflower has delicate, feathery green leaves and slender, hairy stems that support bell-shaped flowers with soft, lavender petals and bright yellow centers.

Flowers

21 Native Wildflowers for Colorado Gardens

Colorado’s famed wildflowers enliven the landscape in a flash of welcomed color. With showy blooms and textures that offer multi-season appeal, they withstand cold winters and offer numerous ecosystem benefits. Fall is the time to sow many of the native favorites. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in exploring the Centennial State’s native bloomers.

Close-up of large, tightly clustered Brassica oleracea heads with thick, vibrant pink leaves edged in light green, filling the entire frame in a well-lit indoor environment.

Ornamental Gardens

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for ‘Crane Red’ Ornamental Kale

You thought flowers were the only option for a bouquet? Think again. ‘Crane Red’ ornamental kale is a stunning cultivar with a hot pink center that fades to blue-green on the outer leaves. With a rapid vertical growth rate, it quickly forms the shape of a rose, with a distinct “flower” and stem. As the season gets colder, the pink grows even stronger. Plant biologist Emily Estep will explain how to plant, grow, and care for ‘Crane Red’ kale.

A shot of a composition of Acanthus flowers in a well lit area outdoors

Flowers

How to Plant, Grow, and Care For Acanthus

Acanthus brings bold, structural foliage and form to the shady border. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in exploring the handsome architectural perennial that thrives in partial sun and shady garden sites.