Gardening Ideas & Inspiration
Explore inspiring gardening ideas that will drastically make your home more efficient & appealing.
Homemade Plant Tags With Pizzazz
These creative, reader-made plant tags leave those boring old plastic stakes you get at the nursery in the dust
From Bare Yard to Flowery Garden
For one novice gardener, a blank-slate backyard became a canvas for a series of color-packed flower beds built over time
12 Flowers That Bloom All Summer
If you’re looking for the best flowers that offer vibrant color all summer long, check out these dozen no-fail, flowering plants.
12 Best Plants for Black Thumbs
If you've had bad luck creating a lush garden, try these dozen hearty ornamental varieties that can weather the worst neglect
How to Design an Entry Garden
Plan a front-yard landscape that boosts curb appeal and welcomes you home
Turn Salvaged Junk Into Garden Ornaments
Personalize your green acres with character-filled items scavenged from flea markets, thrift shops, even your own garage
Fall Plants to Propagate For Spring
Just about any tender perennial is a candidate for snipping in the fall and replanting in the spring. Here are our 5 favorite plants to propagate in fall.
How to Place Pots
A landscape designer's top 7 tips for incorporating containers into your yard
15 Fast-Growing Flowers for a Cutting Garden
You can adorn your table with weekly bouquets with these backyard stars
How to Create a Modern Farmhouse Potting Room
Simple lines, hardworking surfaces, and natural textures combine in a functional space with a warm, earthy style. Here's how you can adopt the look it at your house.
The Sustainable Garden
A homeowner turns her humble backyard into a sustainable garden filled with food, flowers, and a few farmland friends
All About Succulent Plant Types
These plants thrive on neglect, but that'll only make you love them more.
Easy Care Roses
Far from finicky, many shrub-type roses bloom all summer long with very little fuss. Here are some top choices for flower borders, hedges, and containers
Victorian Garden Urns
Fill an old cast-iron container with flowers to brighten a front entry, top it with glass for a patio table, or fit it with a bubbler for a water feature
Coming Up Roses
Climbers and ramblers will cover a trellis, an arbor, even a shed roof, with a profusion of blooms
How to Transform an Old Chimney Pot Into a Garden Light
Turn a salvaged chimney pot into a unique garden light in 6 easy steps. This Old House Features Editor Amy Hughes shows you how
Cold-Weather Plantings
Don't retire your gardening gear just because the temperature's dropped. Pot up some cold-weather plantings to brighten your home's exterior—and your spirits
7 Fall-Blooming Perennials
Count on these perennials to renew the color in your garden after your summer flowers fade
Plant in Pots: Selection, Arrangement, and Care
Here are 8 tips for pot, plant, and flower combinations as well as starting your container garden.
How to Pick Native Plants for Your Garden
Select plants that are true to their home—and yours.
Broken Glass in Your Modern-Style Garden?
Our Cambridge project house is Modern, which means its garden will be Modern, too. That could mean unusual materials. Like broken glass.
Cottage Gardens
An idyllic tradition packs big personality into small spaces
Winter Plant Tip: Buy Ugly
Dormant bare-root plants make for a wise cold-weather purchase
Drought-Resistant Ornamental Grasses
These ornamental grasses aren't only easy on the eyes; they're easy on the water bill, too
Drought-Resistant Perennials
Your garden doesn't have to be a water hog—if you plant drought-resistant perennials.
Drought-Resistant Annuals
This year, save water and plant drought-resistant annuals
Finding the Right Place for Plants
Follow these 4 rules for plant shopping and you'll never end up with a garden misfit
Versatile Vines
These fast-growing plants could be your best landscape investment this summer.
Get the Best Deal on Plants
Here's how to choose the best yard plants for the least cash