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.
Bee balm is a tough, pollinator-magnet perennial that wants full sun and airflow. Learn to plant, water, deadhead, beat powdery mildew, and curb its spread.
A birch tree can decline within a decade if you plant the wrong species in the wrong spot. Here is how to choose, plant, and care for one so it thrives.
The banyan tree starts as a strangler fig and can shade acres outdoors, yet grows happily as an indoor houseplant or bonsai. Learn care and growing.
Your barberry bush can deliver four-season color, but the wrong variety spreads and invites ticks. Here is how to plant, prune, and choose wisely.
Balloon flower is an easy blue perennial with puffy buds that pop open into starry bells. Learn to plant Platycodon, keep it upright, and propagate it.
Bachelor buttons bloom in true cornflower blue on almost no care, yet rich soil and heavy watering leave you with floppy, flowerless plants. Grow them right.
Healthy azalea care comes down to acidic soil, dappled light, and even moisture for shallow roots. Learn to plant, water, feed, prune, and fix problems.
The azalea flower puts on a brief, brilliant spring show – but its forms, colors, bloom timing, reblooming types, and the reasons it won’t flower run deeper.
Baby breath needs full sun and sweet, sharply drained soil. Compare annual and perennial Gypsophila, dry the flowers, and read the invasive-weed warning.
Baby’s breath grows easily in lean, sunny soil and gives armloads of cut flowers. Learn how to plant, water, dry, and grow this gypsophila responsibly.
Astilbe is the easiest way to add color to deep shade, but it needs cool, moist soil to thrive. Learn to plant, water, and divide it for feathery blooms.
An azalea bush thrives or fails on its soil. Get acidic, well-drained ground, shallow planting, dappled light, and after-bloom pruning right for healthy blooms.