Gardening Ideas & Inspiration
Explore inspiring gardening ideas that will drastically make your home more efficient & appealing.
A Guide to Ice Cream Banana Trees
Turn your home into a tropical paradise with an ice cream banana tree. In this guide, we’ll explain everything you need to know about the tree, including what it looks like and how to grow and maintain one.
9 Mini DIY Zen Gardens
Chances are you don’t have a zen garden in your backyard or outside the office. But you could still bring the essence of one to your coffee table or desk with these small-scale terrains.
Top 20 Best New Home Products | Lawn and Garden
Whether you’ve got a tiny patch of green or all-out acreage, make the most of it with the next installment in our guide to the year’s best new products
Best Vegetable Garden Harvest Basket
A smart, new way to carry in the garden crops
Colorful Garden Remodel
A California couple romance their compact property by carving out colorful garden rooms with plenty of guest-ready seating
How to Turn a Feeding Trough into a Planter
Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada travels to Tennessee to build a planter out of an animal feeding trough
How to Grow Tropical Plants Indoors
Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook teaches a homeowner to get a tropical feel from indoor house plants
How to Plant a Rain Garden
Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada plants a rain garden that filters storm runoff to prevent contaminating a marsh
A Magical Garden in Buffalo
A homeowner with a magpie’s eye and a restless imagination turns his garden into a space brimming with ideas
Stakes Worthy of Your Best Peonies
This hefty support will keep your peonies from sagging
A Nantucket Cottage Garden Finds its Sweet Spot
Compact yet overflowing with blooms, this perennial garden gives its owners a spectacular show all summer long
10 Plants That Self-Seed for Prairie-Style Gardens
Over time, plants that self-seed help a wild-looking garden become chock-full of plants without extra expense
10 Grasses for Prairie-Style Gardens
From upright and airy to short and mounding, these grasses form the backbone of a prairie garden
10 Foolproof Native Plants for Prairie-Style Gardens
These tough, fuss-free perennials and grasses have adapted to North American climates and lend to the rustic prairie charm
Grow a Garden From Kitchen Scraps
Don't throw these eight fruits and veggies in the compost bin. Give them a new life in an indoor garden
8 Exotic Plants That Take Up to a Decade—or More—to Bloom
Run-of-the mill garden plants bloom predictably, but these unusual species take years to produce flowers. Worth the wait? You decide...
10 New Hydrangeas You'll Want to Grow Now
Updated versions of summer's favorite shrub offer an expanded range of colors—and blooms that add interest through fall
Easy-Care, Low-Water Container Gardens
10 ideas for potted arrangements from Sunset's new Western Book of Easy-Care Plantings
A CSA Success Story: How a Small Family Farm Flourishes
This husband-and-wife team delivers colorful produce to local families just a few hours after they pluck it from the earth—and they're proving that small family farms can succeed by simply feeding the neighborhood
Check out These Seeds From Your Local Library
Local libraries are getting in on the heirloom action, offering cardholders packets of seeds to grow, harvest, and (maybe) return
13 Ideas for Creating Garden Retreats
Transform a patch of green into an outdoor destination with these fresh upgrades
Resilient Plants for Hardy Hellstrips
Not every plant is resilient enough for a streetside garden. Here are some bulletproof varieties that don't skimp on color
Four-Season Garden Star
A garden designer pairs easy-care shrubs and colorful containers for a home garden that wows year-round
Garden Fixes from the Kitchen
Solve your yard problems with these nontoxic solutions—straight from your pantry
Tried-and-True Perennials for Your Garden
Unfussy and long-lived, perennials pump out beautiful foliage and flowers year after year
50 State Flowers to Grow Anywhere
Show off your national pride with these favorites
Uncommon Container Gardens
Focus on foliage plants for sensational season-long displays
How To Choose And Plant Climbing Roses
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook and rosarian Felicity Keen show how to beautify a fence line with blooming rose bushes
Avoid Invasives: Plant This, Not That
27 trouble-free alternatives to popular shrubs that have earned the "invasive" label
Dahlias: Late Summer's Drama Queens
In a showstopping array of colors, sizes, and shapes, dahlias can play a leading role in your garden's finale
From Blah Lawn to Backyard Rose Garden Paradise
On the way to swapping turf for cottage-style plantings, this self-taught gardener discovered a passion for her new pastime
Garden Beauty on a Budget
A resourceful couple with a "more is more" philosophy and a talent for thrift carves a hardscrabble lot into a series of exuberantly romantic gardens