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.
An oak tree can outlive your house, but the wrong one wastes years. Learn red vs white oaks, the best species for your site, and how to avoid oak wilt.
The oakleaf hydrangea is a four-season native shrub with oak-shaped leaves, white cone blooms, and burgundy fall color. How to grow, prune, and choose one.
An orchid flower fades, then the bare spike fools you. Learn the main types, how long blooms last, where to cut the spike, and what triggers reblooming.
Mountain laurel rewards the right site with showy spring blooms and evergreen leaves. Learn how to plant, water, prune, and troubleshoot this native shrub.
The narcissus flower is the easiest spring bulb to grow – plant in fall, leave the foliage to recharge, and these deer-proof daffodils return for decades.
Monkey grass (Liriope) is a tough evergreen groundcover for edging and shade. Learn clumping vs spreading types, planting, the late-winter cutback, and removal.
Morning glory smothers a fence in trumpet blooms in one season, but it self-seeds fast. Learn to plant, support, feed, and deadhead it for all-summer color.
The mesquite tree is the desert’s toughest shade tree, but overwatering makes it brittle and storm-prone. Learn to plant, prune, and harvest its pods right.
Mexican sunflower is a fiery annual that blooms until frost and draws monarchs and bees. Learn to grow Tithonia from seed, pinch, and stake.
Mandevilla care is easier than its tropical looks suggest: get the sun, watering, support, and overwintering right for bold blooms until frost.
Lobelia delivers rare true-blue flowers but fades in summer heat. Learn how to plant it, keep it watered, revive a stalled plant, and fix browning leaves.
London plane tree care is easier than its size suggests. This tough hybrid shrugs off pollution, poor soil, and drought, but its litter and roots need room.