From annuals and perennials to flowering trees and shrubs, this is where your garden gets its color. Browse planting guides, bloom-time tips, and care advice for the ornamental plants that give a yard its structure, fragrance, and year-round interest.
The January birth flower is the carnation and snowdrop. Learn what each color means, the symbolism behind both, and exactly how to grow them in your garden.
The jasmine flower rewards you with intense fragrance when grown right. Learn how to plant, support, prune, and bloom true jasmine indoors and out.
The iris flower gives a dramatic spring display for little effort, yet planting depth, drainage, and sun are easy to get wrong. Here is how to grow irises.
The hyacinth flower brings the boldest color and strongest scent of early spring, but the fat spike only repeats if you plant the bulbs right and chill them.
Hydrangea care comes down to a few fixable basics: where to plant, how to water deeply, when to prune old versus new wood, and why a shrub will not bloom.
Hydrangea flowers stall when you misread the type. Learn the six bloom forms, the blue-to-pink color trick, why yours won’t bloom, and how to dry them.
Learning how to plant tulip bulbs comes down to fall timing, the right depth, and good drainage. Here is when, how deep, and how to get the best blooms.
Snapdragons thrive in cool weather and shrug off light frost. Here is how to plant, pinch, deadhead, and care for snapdragons for months of color.
Weigela is an easy flowering shrub, but the wrong pruning timing can wipe out a whole season of blooms. Here is how to plant, prune, and pick varieties right.
Sea holly thrives where nothing else will, turning hot, dry, sandy spots into steel-blue blooms. Learn how to plant, grow, and propagate this tough perennial.
Shasta daisy plants bloom for months in full sun, but these short-lived perennials quietly stop flowering unless you divide and deadhead them on time.
Pansies flood the garden with color when little else blooms, but timing, light, and water make or break them. Learn to plant, deadhead, and overwinter them.