Gardening

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Sunlight bathes a front yard filled with lush green plants, casting gentle shadows.

Ornamental Gardens

31 Flowering Foundation Plants That Boost Your Home’s Value

Are you looking for ways to boost your home’s curb appeal and add to its resale value? A beautifully landscaped yard is a great investment that will increase your chances of getting the best price for your home. In this article, gardening expert Melissa Strauss shares plants that will help you build a beautiful foundation in the home landscape.

Close-up of several shade hanging baskets with flowering plants Sutera cordata featirung trailing habit, rounded, jagged, green leaves and delicate white and purple tubular shaped flowers with contrasting yellow throats.

Flowers

19 Plants For Beautiful Hanging Baskets In the Shade

Hanging baskets brighten garden corners and bring cooling respite to warm summer days. They’ll add vertical interest and color through vibrant flowers and foliage, whether on a covered porch or under a tree canopy. Add dimension to the shade garden with these beautiful selections of shade-loving plants well-suited to growing in hanging baskets.

Hydrangea petiolaris, an evergreen variety, boasts lush, glossy foliage and cascading clusters of white lacecap flowers that bloom against a backdrop of climbing vines.

Shrubs

7 Evergreen Hydrangea Varieties for Year-Round Appeal

While beloved, commonly grown hydrangeas drop their leaves in winter, a few evergreen hydrangea selections and relatives in the Hydrangeaceae family hold lustrous leaves year-round. In addition to attractive foliage, their flowers, fruits, and growth habits inspire a doubletake in the garden. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in exploring unique evergreen hydrangea varieties for all-season interest.

Wallflowers in vibrant shades of purple and yellow bloom profusely, complemented by lush green foliage, illuminated by warm sunlight.

Flowers

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Wallflowers

The name wallflower probably conjures up shy schoolkids, but wallflower plants have a lot of bold personality and wonderfully fragrant flowers. Gardening expert Melissa Strauss has the low down on caring for these pretty plants.

Jacaranda trees in full bloom, adorned with vibrant purple flowers, creating a majestic canopy against the sky.

Trees

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Jacaranda Trees

When it comes to tropical, flowering trees, few specimens hold a candle to the magical and beautiful jacaranda tree. If you’re planting one of these special trees, there are a few important factors to consider. Here, gardening expert Melissa Strauss will help you get off on the right foot with your beautiful tree.

The shishito pepper plant features slender, wrinkled green peppers hanging from lush, bushy foliage with broad, glossy green leaves.

Vegetables

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Shishito Peppers

Mild, wrinkled, and incredibly flavorful, ‘Shishito’ peppers are growing into mainstays of American cuisine. One specimen produces dozens of wrinkly chile peppers on a compact plant, making it a perfect choice for gardens big and small. Learn how to nurture this variety alongside seasoned pepper gardener Jerad Bryant.

Dry red hot peppers with wrinkled bodies stored in a glass jar for long-term preservation.

Vegetables

How to Dry and Store Hot Peppers

Hot peppers grow dozens of fruit per plant! Preserve those excess harvests with these tried and true preservation methods. Follow along with pepper gardener Jerad Bryant to learn how to best dry and store hot peppers.

Close-up of a watering can watering blooming marigolds in a sunny garden to keep the annuals fresh as long as possible.

Flowers

5 Tips To Keep Annuals Looking Fresh All Summer Long

Midsummer is a time of rest, excitement, and relaxation all in one! But our annual plants usually start to look a bit scraggly and unsightly as hot summer days wane on. In this article, garden expert Christina Conner shares her top tips for helping your annuals look their best well into the dog days of summer.

Converted lawn into a flowering meadow with various plants including Heleniums, Leutratal-Anthericum, Veronica spicata, Lavender and various ornamental grasses.

Flowers

How to Convert Your Lawn Into a Flowering Meadow

Are you ready to say goodbye to the hassles of maintaining a grassy lawn? Flowering meadows are beautiful habitats with a rich diversity of plants and animals. The adventurous gardener can replace turfgrass with a much more natural assortment of ornamental grasses and easy-to-grow flowering plants. Garden expert Liessa Bowen will share some useful tips to help you get started.

Tough annual Catharanthus roseus blooms in a hanging black container in a sunny garden, producing glossy, dark green, oval-shaped leaves and a profusion of five-petaled pink flowers with contrasting white centers.

Flowers

17 Tough Annuals for Summer Containers

While summer ushers in a profusion of blooms and filled-to-the-brim container displays, it also brings extreme temperatures and weather that can stress plants. Starting with tough annuals gives arrangements a headstart to perform without missing a beat (even if the gardener scoots away on vacation). Here, gardener Katherine Rowe explores durable annuals for summer containers.