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DIY garden paths. A sunny garden with a white stone pathway twisting among flowering plants with snow-white airy flowers with characteristic yellow centers, in a sunny garden.

Gardening Tips

15 Easy Ways to DIY Your Garden Paths

Pathways add charm to the yard! They’re essential parts of a cohesive garden design. Depending on how you want the garden to look, use a natural, wild style or a formal, geometric one. You can do it yourself! Start with one of these 15 easy methods to create your garden paths, from former landscaper Jerad Bryant.

Get moonflowers to bloom. Large, white trumpet-shaped bloom unfurls among heart-shaped green leaves on twining vines.

Flowers

How to Get Moonflowers to Bloom: 7 Growing Tips

Moonflowers are close relatives of morning glory vines with pure-white blooms and heart-shaped leaves. The last thing you want to see is your vines full of leaves and no flowers! Seasoned grower Jerad Bryant shares seven tips to get your lackluster vines from bare to readily blooming.

Guzmania lingulata with glossy red flower bracts radiating from a yellow-orange central rosette, surrounded by smooth dark green strap-like leaves.

Ornamental Gardens

9 Ways to Get Bromeliad Plants to Rebloom

Tropical plants make gorgeous houseplants! They’re also perfect for landscaping outdoors in warm regions, and bromeliads are one of the best types. Though they rebloom naturally in their native range, they require some care to perform well in our homes and gardens.

Bright red trumpet-shaped flowers with smooth petals and green foliage packed tightly beneath the blooms.

Flowers

Supertunias vs. Wave Petunias: Find the Best Variety For Your Garden

Petunias are a highlight of summer in the annual border and spilling from hanging baskets and pots. Top-performing hybrids, like the reliable Wave and the wow-factor Supertunia, bring loads of blooms on vigorous stems. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores the nuances of Wave petunia vs. Supertunia to hone in on the best pick for your landscape.

Muhlenbergia reverchonii forms soft green mounds with wispy pink flower sprays rising above fine foliage.

Ornamental Gardens

15 Colorful Ornamental Grasses That Look Good All Season

We sometimes overlook ornamental grasses without knowing how they will behave in our landscapes, but they play a valuable role in adding movement and texture while supporting birds and other wildlife. Garden designer Katherine Rowe explores grasses to bring big seasonal color for a lasting impact in the garden.

A sunny garden full of crops plant May vegetables

Gardening Tips

Plant These 15 Garden Crops in May

It's the magical month of May, and we are getting busy in the garden. There are so many great crops to plant this month. Join Florida gardener Melissa Strauss to hear about what the Epic crew is planting this May!

Close-up of a large, stunning dahlia flower, with several layers of bright apricot-pink petals surrounding a small central disc on a tall stem in a sunny garden, prize-winning dahlias tips.

Flowers

7 Growing Tips for County Fair Prize-Winning Dahlias

Summer is dahlia season, and these spectacular blooms are among the prettiest you can grow. From tiny poms to dinner plate-sized beauties, we simply can't get enough. Here are some tips on growing prize-worthy specimens from cut flower gardener Melissa Strauss.

hands planting yellow flowers in hanging basket

Ornamental Gardens

How Many Plants Go In a Hanging Basket? 7 Spacing Tips

Creating a stunning hanging basket display requires some planning ahead, particularly when it comes to spacing. Too few plants look sparse, while too many compete for nutrients and water. Gardening expert Madison Moulton shares 7 essential spacing tips to help you create the perfect hanging basket.

A shot of a person in the process of tending to flowers, showcasing May garden tasks

Gardening Tips

15 Garden Tasks To Do in May

We've made it to May, and the gardening season is underway! Is your yard ready for the season? Gardening expert Melissa Strauss has some tasks you should consider to get your space into tip-top growing condition.