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.
Goldenrod gets blamed for hay fever it never causes, then called a weed. In truth this native perennial is easy to grow and feeds late-season pollinators.
Want a ginkgo tree without years of foul-smelling fruit? Learn to choose a male cultivar, plant it right, and care for this gold-leafed living fossil.
Gladiolus is an easy summer bulb, yet small mistakes leave you with leaves and no flowers. Learn how to plant, feed, and store corms right.
A gardenia rewards you with fragrant blooms, but yellow leaves and bud drop frustrate growers. Learn to plant, water, feed, prune, and fix common problems.
Gazania, the treasure flower, blooms all summer in heat and drought but sulks if overwatered. Here is how to grow it in full sun and whether it comes back.
Good gerbera daisy care hinges on three things growers miss – sharp drainage, a crown kept at soil level, and bright light – for blooms all season.
The foxglove flower brings dramatic spires to shady borders, but its biennial cycle and toxicity trip up beginners. Learn to plant, grow, and keep it going.
Fuchsia thrives in shade but dies in heat. Learn how to water, feed, pinch, and overwinter it for months of dangling, two-toned blooms.
A forsythia bush rarely fails, yet many bloom less every year. Learn when to plant, how to prune at the right time, and why yours may not flower.
A four leaf clover is rarer than you think, near 1 in 5,000. Learn what causes the fourth leaflet, how to find and grow one, and how to tell it from Oxalis.
Four o clock flowers open in the late afternoon with fragrant, multicolored trumpet blooms. Learn how to plant, grow, and overwinter this easy heirloom.
Forget-me-nots paint the spring garden true blue, but their eager self-seeding can turn weedy. Learn to grow, control, and pair Myosotis with bulbs.