Ornamental Gardens

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

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Bulbs

How to Save and Store Amaryllis Bulbs for Next Year

Amaryllis flowers offer decadent blooms around the holidays. They’re perfect for decorating, adding bright red, pink, or white blossoms atop slender green stems. Follow these simple steps from seasoned grower Jerad Bryant to ensure your bulbs bloom next year!

Three potted amaryllis plants in various stages, from blooming to wilted and dormant, demonstrating care for amaryllis after bloom.

Bulbs

What to Do With Amaryllis After They Bloom

Amaryllis offers stunning, gigantic blooms for you to enjoy indoors! You may have bought a potted bulb weeks ago and now notice its flowers are fading. Learn what you can do with the bulb, whether you’d like to recycle it or save it for next year. Seasoned grower Jerad Bryant shares what you must do to save your amaryllis.

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Cacti & Succulents

Why Are My Aloe Plant Leaves Sticky?

Aloe plants have many wonderful uses, from soothing sunburns to looking great in your garden. Although they’re easy to grow, they can succumb to critters and diseases. In this article, horticulture expert Matt Dursum shows you why your aloe plant leaves are sticky and what to do about it.

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Trees

9 Reasons Your Lemon Cypress Tree is Dying and How to Save It

Fragrant, bright, and beautiful, lemon cypress trees are true stars in the garden. Their foliage remains golden yellow all year. If your tree turns brown or grows slowly, it may face diseases, pests, or cultivation issues. Join former nursery tree grower Jerad Bryant in solving these nine common lemon cypress problems.

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Shrubs

17 Best Shrubs for the Cut Flower Garden

Are you looking to plant a flowering hedge or add long-lived plants that provide beautiful blooms for arrangements? Join flower farmer Briana Yablonski to learn some of the top shrubs for your cut flower garden.

Close-up of a winter hellebore variety with delicate, pale pink flowers with deep maroon speckles and edges atop sturdy stems, surrounded by leathery, dark green leaves with prominent veins in a sunny garden.

Flowers

19 Showstopping Hellebore Varieties to Grow for Winter Blooms

Hellebores are delightful winter bloomers that can add color and beauty to your garden during the cold months. With their saucer-shaped flowers in shades that are both soft and bold, they are the belle of the winter landscape. Join gardening expert Melissa Strauss to look at some beautiful varieties.

Pink double flowers with layered petals and deep green, oval-shaped leaves in a compact arrangement.

Shrubs

5 Reasons Your Indoor Azalea Is Dying and How To Fix It

These beloved woody perennial shrubs bring their colorful charm indoors through florist-potted varieties. The forced blooms in vibrant shades emerge as many other plants are resting. If your indoor azalea shows signs of stress and decline, join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in exploring a few primary causes and how to restore its vigor.

A large house with white windows and a black roof is framed by a neat garden featuring evergreens, boxwoods, hydrangea bushes, Digitalis purpurea, daylilies, and white roses along a white fence.

Ornamental Gardens

11 Plants That Bloom Throughout the Year

Plants that flower throughout the year are garden and houseplant champions. They bring color across seasons, flowering almost continuously in optimal conditions and where hardy. Join garden expert Katherine Rowe in exploring repeat bloomers to incorporate for an extended show of color throughout the year in warm climates and with a long display in frostier growing regions.

On a table sits a throw away poinsettia with upright bare stems and clusters of red bracts resembling petals at the tops, the pot wrapped in burlap, alongside gardening tools and a few fallen leaves.

Flowers

Don’t Throw Away Your Poinsettia: How to Keep it Thriving for Months

After we enjoy the season's revelry, our bright poinsettias fade as they take a (well-deserved!) break as part of their natural growth cycle. In the right conditions, these tropical growers live year-round as houseplants or in the garden in frost-free climates. Want to keep your poinsettia thriving? Join garden expert Katherine Rowe in their best care.