Gardening Planning
Prepare for your next gardening project by discovering our planning ideas & tips.
8 Essential Elements for Planning a Cottage Garden
Now's the time to sketch out your plan for beautiful results in the spring. Here's how to get started
Best Plants for a Cottage Garden
Carry your home's cottage style through the garden with these flower options
Gardening Tips From a Pro, Q&A Style
A popular TV expert offers gardening tips and tricks based on a lifetime of digging, planting, caring for, and feeding his own garden.
Grow a Lush Shade Garden With Hostas
These leafy perennials are showy, shade tolerant, and a cinch to grow—and new varieties offer a wider-than-ever range of leaf color, size, and texture. Read on to learn how to pick and plant them to create a sensational landscape
How to Choose and Plant Hydrangeas
Landscaping contractor Roger Cook discusses how to choose and plant hydrangeas
Grow Fruits and Vegetables Anywhere
With smart strategies, you can raise your own harvest in any size outdoor space
9 Clean-Air Plants for Your Home
Learn about everyday houseplants that do double duty clearing out pollutants in your indoor air.
How to Plant Spring-Blooming Bulbs
Planting spring bulbs in the fall is an effortless way to get a vibrant, well-decorated yard when the warm weather returns. Ask This Old House landscape contractor Jenn Nawada and former landscape contractor Roger Cook share a few tips for adding these flowering pieces to your outdoor space.
Carts and Wheelbarrows
From trash to topsoil, everything travels more quickly when you stick a wheel underneath it
Best Plants for a Healthy, Organic Garden
Pair these flowers and herbs with your favorite garden growers to improve soil, increase propagation, and keep harmful insects at bay—all without the help of chemicals
How to Get More Plants at No Cost
Grow additional specimens (for free!) from ones you have on hand to fill out your garden beds or share with friends
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.
Grow a Healthy Vegetable Garden
The benefits of vegetable gardening go way beyond cutting food costs. Here's a guide to planning, planting, and relishing your own backyard harvest
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
Good Climbers
Fill your bare trellis with blooms and vines that grow vertically
Best Plants for Colorful Foliage
12 easy-care plants with dramatic leaves that dazzle
The Sustainable Garden
A homeowner turns her humble backyard into a sustainable garden filled with food, flowers, and a few farmland friends
Shrub-Type Roses
These long-lasting blooms will take you into the fall with little to no fuss
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
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
Garden Hand Tools
Choosing and using tough, reliable tools that will take a beating in your yard.
Easy Houseplants
Plant expert Carrie Kelly, featured on Ask This Old House, gives advice on low-maintenance houseplants that anyone can grow
Plant in Pots: Selection, Arrangement, and Care
Here are 8 tips for pot, plant, and flower combinations as well as starting your container garden.
Foundation Planting Ideas
The plantings closest to your home should play up its assets and soften its hard edges.
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
Mulch Materials
This gardening essential not only neatens up your yard, it also helps conserve water and discourages weeds.
Made for the Shade
Plants that flourish where the sun doesn't much shine.
How to Lay Sod in 7 Easy Steps
Want a fantastic lawn, fast? From cost to tools to the best times to roll out the patches, learn how to lay sod in 7 easy and seamless steps.