Ornamental Gardens

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

Understanding if it is possible to tell bulbs are fresh using various methods, with some pieces placed on soil in multiple pots

Bulbs

How to Tell if Your Bulbs are Fresh: 10 Pro Tips

It’s planting time and you’re excited to start some new bulbs in your garden. Do you know how to determine if those bulbs are fresh, healthy, and ready to grow? Gardening expert Liessa Bowen shares 10 simple tips to help you examine your bulbs like a pro!

Delicate, star-shaped white flowers with yellow centers of this perennial tulip bloom atop slender, upright stems, surrounded by narrow, grassy leaves that create a vibrant display in the garden.

Bulbs

17 Perennial Tulips That Bloom Reliably Every Year

For stunning spring color, you can’t go wrong planting tulips. But if you want that color to last beyond the first year, it’s important to choose your tulips carefully. Gardening expert Madison Moulton lists 17 perennial tulips to try for continuous color.

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Bulbs

When and How To Plant Snowdrop Bulbs for Early Blooms

Snowdrops give the sweetest welcome to spring. One of the earliest to flower in late winter, poking through the snow, snowdrop bulbs - the more, the merrier - bring subtle beauty that’s nothing short of enchanting. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in how to plant snowdrops now for a late winter display.

Several rounded seeds with papery brown outer layers are nestled in moist, dark soil, surrounded by vivid pink and green plants, with a small hand trowel resting nearby.

Bulbs

Should You Refrigerate Fall Bulbs Before Planting?

It’s autumn, and you know what that means! It’s time to plant bulbs like daffodils, tulips, and trillium. Should you refrigerate these plants before you bury them? Let’s find out. Join native plant gardener Jerad Bryant and learn how to help your bulbs produce as many flowers as possible.

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Ornamental Gardens

21 Ornamental Plants with Fall Berries

While edible berries provide us with delicious snacks, ornamental berries supply food for wildlife and beautify the fall garden. Join gardener Briana Yablonski to learn about 21 ornamental plants you can plant to add colorful berries to your landscape.

A shot of flower outdoors that is one example of a method to overwinter potted petunias

Flowers

How to Overwinter Potted Petunias in 9 Steps

Why let petunias die in autumn? If you have them in hanging baskets, containers, or small pots, learn to overwinter them indoors or outdoors with these 9 easy steps. Join backyard grower Jerad Bryant and learn what your tender perennials need to survive the cold season.

Hardy perennial bulbs produce double-layered, white, nodding flowers with ruffled petals blooming atop slender, arching stems, surrounded by narrow, deep green leaves that create a graceful display in the garden.

Bulbs

15 Hardy Perennial Bulbs You Can Plant Now

Are you itching to get a head start on your spring garden before winter rolls in? Fall is a great time to plant many spring-blooming bulbs. Gardening expert Melissa Strauss shares 15 gorgeous, cold, hardy bulbs that you can plant right now!

Close-up of a flowering meadow in a summer sunny garden with blooming Cosmos, Marigold, Cornflowers and other wildflowers.

Flowers

21 Native Wildflowers for Tennessee Gardens

Do you live in Tennessee or a surrounding state? You have a wealth of beautiful and easy-to-grow wildflowers native to your region! Join gardening expert Liessa Bowen as we introduce 21 native wildflowers to enhance your landscape, support pollinators, and create an eco-friendly garden.

A field of multi-colored peony tulips, covering the area grown from bulbs need divided under the clear blue sky

Bulbs

How to Plant, Grow, and Care For Peony Tulips

Tulips' beauty and carefree nature have made them popular for gardeners who want to dress up their spring garden. Peony tulips are especially beautiful and fragrant, too! In this article, gardening expert Melissa Strauss walks through what you need to know to grow and care for these wonderful spring bloomers.

The spent Blackberry Lily flowers display dried, brownish petals with a papery texture, revealing clusters of glossy black seeds nestled within.

Flowers

15 Perennials to Direct Sow in Fall

Sowing seeds may not be the first thing you think of during fall, but it’s the perfect time to sow perennials for next year’s blooms. If you’ve got a bare spot, an empty pot, or want to fill your raised beds, you should direct sow any of these 15 species—they’ll turn drap gardens into blooming paradises!