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.
Calla lily care looks fussy but is simple once you match watering to the type, plant the rhizomes at the right depth, and give them a winter rest to rebloom.
Butterfly bush is easy to grow once you nail the basics. Learn the sun, drainage, watering, and spring pruning rules that keep buddleia blooming all season.
A caladium gives you hand-painted heart-shaped leaves, but only if you plant the tuber eyes-up in warm soil, keep it shaded and humid, and lift before frost.
Burning bush lights up fall with intense scarlet foliage, yet it is invasive across much of the US. Learn to plant, prune, and pick a safe alternative.
A bottlebrush tree dazzles with brushy red blooms but stalls without sun and drainage. Learn to plant, water, prune, train, and fix yellow leaves.
Boxwood shrubs give a garden year-round structure, but deep planting, bad pruning, and blight quietly kill them. Learn to plant, prune, and choose them well.
Blue false indigo gives indigo-blue spring spires for almost no work, yet the deep taproot, slow start, and flopping trip up gardeners. Here is how to grow it.
Bleeding heart is an easy shade perennial with quirks. Learn how to plant it, why it won’t bloom, and when yellow leaves are normal.
The blue bell flower carpets spring woodlands in violet-blue, yet its many types confuse gardeners. Learn to identify, grow and care for bluebells properly.
Bird of paradise grows leaves easily but often refuses to flower. Learn the light, age, and root conditions that trigger blooms, plus care indoors and out.
Birth month flowers give each month a bloom, a meaning, and a growing note – January carnations through December narcissus, plus how US and UK lists differ.
Black eyed susan dazzles all summer but baffles gardeners: annual or perennial? Learn how to plant, grow, deadhead, and keep this golden native blooming.