Ornamental Gardens

Learn how to cultivate beautiful ornamental gardens and how to troubleshoot common pests, diseases, and growing problems!

A collection of patio plants smells amazing in wicker baskets, featuring clusters of blue flowers, white blossoms, and tall green grass-like foliage.

Ornamental Gardens

13 Patio Plants That Smell Amazing

Adding fragrant plants to your patio is a fantastic way to add beauty and sensory delight to your outdoor living space. Gardening expert Melissa Strauss shares plants that are both beautiful and aromatic to add to your potted patio plant collection.

A meadow where plants fill gaps, showcasing colorful flowers in shades of pink, orange, yellow, and white with thin, feathery green leaves and stems.

Ornamental Gardens

15 Best Plants That Quickly Fill in Garden Gaps

Whether making a quick refresh to weary beds or creating a new look for the season, fast-growing plants bring swift rewards. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe highlights selections that perform across garden scales and conditions with high visual interest and lasting color.

Streams of water irrigate tall flowering dahlias with large, rounded flowers of tightly packed, deep red, spoon-shaped petals, rising on upright, sturdy stems amid lush green foliage.

Flowers

7 Dahlia Watering Tips for Abundant Flowers

Dahlias have specific water needs that change throughout the season, and getting it wrong can mean fewer blooms or plant failure. Gardening expert Madison Moulton shares the watering secrets that keep dahlias thriving.

A lush hydrangea bush with large purple flower clusters showing small, slightly drying flowers and green leaves with brown, crispy edges from drought.

Shrubs

9 Tips to Keep Your Hydrangeas Happy During a Drought

Hydrangeas are standout flowering shrubs in the summer garden, offering one of the biggest bloom shows of the season. Durable, they perform across growing zones. But the moisture-loving ornamentals benefit from extra care during drought situations. Gardening expert Katheirne Rowe outlines how to protect hydrangeas during heat waves and dry spells for long-lived, healthy shrubs.

A gardener with black pruning shears prunes flowering dahlias with large red-burgundy pompon-shaped blooms on tall stems surrounded by lush green foliage.

Flowers

How To Prune Dahlias for More Blooms

Dahlias bring dramatic mid to late-season blooms that usher in fall with their lasting beauty. The long-developing buds, well worth the wait, are unrivaled in their form and symmetry. For more blooms throughout the season, simple dahlia pruning lets us double the display.

A grouping of large, conical clusters of small, pale green and white flowers blooming on a plant with broad green leaves in an August garden.

Flowers

13 Stunning Flowers That Bloom in August

August is a great time for late-season flowers. While many trees and shrubs are winding down for the season, there are still plenty of blooms to go around. Cut flower gardener Melissa Strauss discusses what you can plant in your garden for a bounty of flowers in August.

A Tagetes lemmonii plant appearing lush and thick, with blooms also known as copper canyon daisies with the flowers looking bright yellow

Flowers

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Copper Canyon Daisies

Copper Canyon daisies are U.S. native plants that resemble marigolds. They’re truly stunning, and they’re perennial! Rather than having to start them every spring like traditional marigolds, you can plant these daisies once for endless blooms. Join native plant gardener Jerad Bryant to learn how to cultivate ‘Copper Canyon’ daisies in your yard.

A large creamy white magnolia plant flower with a lemon bloom scent, surrounded by glossy dark green leaves.

Ornamental Gardens

11 Garden Plants We Love That Smell Like Lemons

To surround ourselves with the invigorating aroma of lemons, there are plenty of garden plants to fulfill the role. When it’s not citrus season, these are ready to stand in for easy aromatic uplift. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores herbs, perennials, and woody plants that smell like lemons for multi-season rejuvenation.