How to Make Your Shade Garden Shine
If your yard is shadier than you'd like, you may feel a bit jealous of gardeners with lots of sun. But a shade garden offers some unique...
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How to Plan a Spring Bulb Garden
It's easy to plant a bag of daffodils or a few dozen tulips. But if you want a spring bulb garden that blooms for months rather than weeks, it requires a...
Best Perennials for Late Summer Color
When is your perennial garden at its best? Most gardeners would say late May through July—a glorious but short 8 weeks. But by August, those plants have...
How to Use Blue in Your Flower Garden
Gardeners find it hard to resist the allure of blue flowers. Delphiniums, muscari, lobelia, Himalayan blue poppies, plumbago, hydrangeas, or morning glories --...
Sun or Shade: How Sunlight Affects Plants
Some plants are not fussy about whether they are planted in sun or shade, but most have a preference. When a plant doesn't thrive, the...
How to Group Container Plants - Tips from Great Dixter
Great Dixter is one of the world’s most famous gardens. Located in East Sussex, just south of London, it was the family home of innovative plantsman...
Landscaping with Daylilies
Few plants can rival daylilies for toughness, adaptability and easy care. These summer-blooming perennials perform as well in Minnesota as they...
How to Use Purple in Your Flower Garden
Photo by Clive Nichols, taken at Trentham Gardens, Staffordshire, England. In art and literature, purple is associated with royalty, spirituality, serenity...
7 Tips for Beginning Flower Gardeners
Thomas Jefferson was one of our country’s most ardent and knowledgeable gardeners. In addition to writing the Declaration of Independence,...