Ornamental Gardens

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

A bush with a chance for the petunias stop blooming, possibly due to excessive heat and other problems

Flowers

7 Reasons Your Petunias Stopped Blooming

If your petunia stops blooming, it may need an adjustment or two in its growing conditions to restore its full-flowered stems. The vigorous annuals perform throughout the summer, though they take a break when the going gets tough. Gardening expert Katheirne Rowe explores reasons why petunias stop flowering and ways to boost the blooms.

Vibrant red and yellow daisy-like flowers with fringed petals, supported by slender green stems and narrow lance-shaped leaves, showing the flowers you can direct sow in July.

Flowers

13 Flowers You Can Direct Sow in July

It's July, and there's no time to waste in the garden. If you want to plant some late-season flowers, now is the time to do it! Gardening expert Melissa Strauss has the lowdown on some beautiful flowers you can easily direct sow in the garden this month.

A small firecracker bush with dainty blooms, appearing white with vibrant pink ends

Ornamental Gardens

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Firecracker Bush

Firecracker bush explodes with color! Its scarlet-red blooms fill the late summer garden with pomp and circumstance. Drought-tolerant, hardy, and low-maintenance, this U.S. native shrub excels in warm regions. Learn how to cultivate it alongside native plant gardener Jerad Bryant.

Bright yellow pea-like flowers cluster along slender green stems with fine, lance-shaped leaflets.

Shrubs

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Siberian Pea Shrubs

Siberian pea shrubs are ruggedly adaptable and a fit for challenging sites. Their durability, easy growth, and hardiness make them a contender for spots where other plants may not thrive. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores the low-maintenance, hardy shrub and its optimal growing conditions.

Close-up of blooming zinnias with soft pink flowers affected by Alternaria Blight disease, covering green and brown dried foliage with irregular brown spots with white centers.

Flowers

5 Zinnia Diseases to Watch for This Season

Zinnias bring bounce to the display with their vibrant ray petals, sunny yellow centers, and the buzz of busy pollinators. While reliable, quick, and easy to grow, they’re not immune to common diseases, with a couple of pathogens all their own. Garden expert Kathierine Rowe targets zinnia diseases and how to treat and prevent them.

A lovely Spirea shrub looking healthy and lush with a bee buzzing nearby to obtain nectar from the flowers

Shrubs

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Spirea Shrubs

Spirea shrubs’ textured foliage and small flowers add beauty to all kinds of landscapes. And with so many species to choose from, you can likely find one that grows well in your garden. Join farmer Briana Yablonski to learn how to plant and care for spirea.

Bright multicolored gerbera daisies with large, layered petals bloom vibrantly in pots on a greenhouse countertop.

Flowers

How to Grow Gerbera Daisies in Pots and Containers

It isn’t always easy to match gerbera daisies’ ideal cultural conditions, but growing them in pots grants us the flexibility to control certain conditions. The right temperature, moisture, soil type, and sun exposure become more achievable with the portability of containers. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores how to provide the best potted environment for the delightful, bouncy blooms.