Ornamental Gardens

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

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Flowers

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Superbena®

Superbena® are trailing, mounding, and cascading hybrid plants. Their versatility and variety make them excellent candidates for large containers, borders, and tree wells. Give them the care they need, and they’ll fill your garden with endless blooms from spring through fall.

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Flowers

11 Most Fragrant Petunia Varieties to Grow This Season

While many gardeners choose petunias for their vibrant colors and prolific blooming, some varieties offer delightful fragrance too. Garden expert Madison Moulton reveals the 11 most fragrant petunia varieties that add both visual impact and sweet scent to your garden spaces.

A bundle flowers ready to prune daffodils after bloom, appearing to be soft and delicate with green stems

Flowers

When and How to Prune Daffodils After Blooming

Daffodils, in their trumpeted glory, usher in spring with a bright show. As the waves of gold, peach, and white fade to make way for warm-season blooms, it’s time to tuck them in for dormancy. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe reviews post-bloom cut-back for daffodils, where timing is the key in fostering next spring’s display.

A rose plant shows vigorous green shoots with small leaves growing from the base, indicating reversion to rootstock.

Shrubs

5 Signs Your Rose is Reverting to the Rootstock

Roses are resilient, productive flowering shrubs, ready to perform for years in the right growing environment. Beyond our control is the propensity of grafted roses to revert to their underlying rootstock. Gardening expert Katheine Rowe points to signs your rose is reverting, what to expect, and how to manage the internal horticultural conflict.

A shot of a potted purple flower besind smalled white flowers, showcasing petunia lookalikes

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9 Easy-to-Grow Petunia Look-Alikes To Try This Year

Love the look of petunias but want to try something different? These petunia look-alikes deliver similar visual impact with their own unique benefits. Garden expert Madison Moulton shares the best petunia alternatives that closely resemble these popular flowers but bring something new to your garden.

A close-up shot of a developing airy evergreen perennial variety called diamond frost euphorbia, showcasing its white flowers

Ornamental Gardens

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Diamond Frost® Euphorbia

Perfect as a houseplant, bedding material, or a potted specimen, Diamond Frost® Euphorbia is a lovely cultivar with graceful stems and dainty blossoms. Its small root system, drought tolerance, and hardiness make it a tough plant for the home garden. Learn to plant, grow, and care for this unique perennial alongside seasoned gardener Jerad Bryant.

In the garden, there are various types of potted bromeliad plants, with curved, strap-like leaves with a glossy surface of green and pinkish shades, forming in the centers of rosettes tanks filled with water, one of the tips for caring for an after-blooming plant.

Ornamental Gardens

7 Bromeliad After-Bloom Care Tips

Bromeliads are some of the showiest plants in the world! With a wide range of species, bromeliads come in all shapes and sizes. Each species has unique growing habits and flowering periods. Join seasoned grower Jerad Bryant to learn how to care for yours and ensure they continue thriving post-bloom.

A shot of a composition of green stalks with silvery-white fluffy tops of the maiden grass

Ornamental Gardens

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Maiden Grass

Maiden grass is an old-time garden favorite for a variety of outdoor styles. It sprouts thin, dainty foliage from large, arching clumps. Red flowers appear in the fall, and seed heads emerge shortly after for winter interest. If you’re looking for a hardy grass, look no further than this unique variety!

A shot of a person in the process of cuting pink flowers, showcasing how to make cut peony blooms last

Flowers

How to Make Your Cut Peony Blooms Last: 7 Tips to Try

Peonies as cut flowers are among the most voluminous and unrivaled in the late spring display. With petal-packed blooms, a light fragrance, and a range of hues from the softest blush to scarlet, the beloved old garden perennials are a bouquet mainstay. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe to explore ways to make cut peonies last longer in the vase and make the most of a short but bloom-filled season.

Several hanging pots with brightly blooming cascading petunias in shades of pink and white, in a sunny garden.

Flowers

9 Cascading Petunia Plants For Pots and Containers

Cascading petunias quickly fill a pot on their own or in complement to other summertime blooms and dynamic foliage. The versatile, long-blooming favorites are tailor-made for container culture. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in top-performing trailing varieties to soften the edge in a wash of color.

A cheerful garden display of reseeded petunias in shades of pink, purple, and white, basking in warm sunshine with delicate, trumpet-shaped blooms and soft green foliage.

Flowers

Will Petunias Reseed In the Garden?

Petunias, with their easy color and care, are annual favorites. Depending on the variety and climate, they even reseed for a show in the following seasons. With reseeding petunias, the display is a surprise. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores petunias’ capacity to reseed in their optimal growing environments.