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.
Plumeria rewards a little know-how with months of fragrant blooms. Learn the sun, soil, watering, and winter care that keep frangipani healthy and flowering.
Pink flowers come in every shade and season, but the wrong pick sulks in the wrong spot. Find the best pink-flowering plants by sun, shade and bloom time.
Phlox covers very different plants. See how tall garden, creeping, and woodland types each need different care, plus how to beat powdery mildew.
Pieris japonica gives you spring flowers and fiery new foliage, but only in acidic soil and partial shade. Here is how to plant, prune, and grow it well.
A pine cone is far more than decoration. Learn what a pine cone really is, how its scales open and close, why some wait for fire, and how to use them at home.
Petunias bloom from spring to frost, but fade by midsummer if you get sun, water, or feeding wrong. Learn the types, care basics, and how to fix legginess.
Perennial plants return year after year, but most bloom only briefly and take three seasons to hit their stride. Learn how to choose, design, and grow them.
Penstemon dies young when soil is too rich and wet, but get the drainage and sun right and beardtongue rewards you with years of hummingbird-friendly bloom.
A peony bush blooms for decades, but only if planted right. Learn where and how deep to set it, how to keep it flowering, and why yours has no blooms.
Ornamental grasses add movement, texture, and four-season color with almost no fuss. Learn to choose warm- vs cool-season clumpers and grow them right.
Pampas grass is easy to grow but its invasive habit catches gardeners off guard. Learn to plant, care for, cut back, dry, and tame it responsibly.
Panicle hydrangea is the toughest, most forgiving hydrangea you can grow, blooming on new wood from zone 3 to 9. Learn where to plant, prune, and choose one.