Ornamental Gardens
Ornamental gardens are, first and foremost, gardens that look good. What makes your garden look good is totally up to you, and luckily there are almost countless ornamental plants to grow.
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If Your Peonies Had Fungus Last Year, Spray Them With This Natural Remedy Now for Healthy Blooms This SpringFungal diseases on peonies can cause distorted blooms or no flowers at all. If your plants had problems last year, spray them now to ensure big blooms later.
By Mary Ellen Ellis
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Double Your Blooms This Summer With These 4 Easy March Pruning Tricks Anyone Can MasterIt’s not just what you cut, it’s the way that you do it. If you’re looking to ramp up your flower power this summer, you need these 4 pruning tricks – and now’s the time to go for it. Don’t be shy, you’ve got this!
By Janey Goulding
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6 Fast-Growing Flowers to Start in Spring – for Blooms in Just 2 MonthsImpatient gardeners, rejoice! These fast-growing flowers only take two months to go from seed to bloom. Start them now for flowers by May.
By Laura Walters
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Plant These 8 Forgiving Perennials for a Summer Garden Full of Color For Years to ComeHere's how I cheat my last frost date and plant early for a head start on low-maintenance summer color – and it couldn’t be easier
By Emma Kendell
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March Is a Big Month for Wildflowers – Here’s What Will Bloom (and When)Bloodroot for new beginnings, coltsfoot for resilience, spring beauty for fleeting joy. Every March wildflower tells a story...
By Kayleigh Dray
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What to Do With Roses in March for Brighter Blooms This Summer – No Matter Your ZonePSA for gardeners everywhere: March is the wake-up call for roses.
By Kayleigh Dray
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Be Brave and Give These 6 Plants a Hard Prune in Early March – You’ll Get Great Results, Even if You’re a Beginner GardenerPruning can be scary, we know, but you can safely snip these fast growers without a worry.
By Emma Kendell
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These 8 Plants Are Always the Last to Wake Up in Spring – Plus, 3 Easy Checks That Show They Are Still AliveSpring is round the corner, so why does your favorite perennial look like a clump of sticks? Before you write it off, check to see if it’s one of these 8 notoriously late sleepers
By Susan Albert
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How to Create a Fairy Ring with Spring Bulbs for a Natural, Whimsical Garden FeatureTulips, daffodils, hyacinths… and a little bit of magic. Create a fairy ring that feels like it grew overnight.
By Kayleigh Dray
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March Is Your Last Chance to Prune These 8 Plants – Miss the Window and You’ll Get Fewer FlowersMarch is the last time you will get to prune these plants before they break dormancy. Prune now to enjoy better growth this spring and summer.
By Mary Ellen Ellis
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Cottage Garden Shrubs – 10 Dreamy Picks for a Nostalgic and Romantic AestheticEasy naturalistic movement meets evocative nostalgia in the heart of the cottage garden. Discover 10 essential flowering shrubs that provide a multi-seasonal tapestry of color and texture
By Janey Goulding
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As the Ground Thaws in March, I'm Sowing These 8 Flower Seeds for a Head Start on Summer ColorLots of hardy annuals are tough enough to be sown outside as soon as your soil is workable. Stockpile these seeds now, have your trowel at the ready, and watch that weather forecast!
By Emma Kendell
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Trout Lily Care Guide: How to Grow This Native Woodland EphemeralThe trout lily only blooms 1-2 weeks per year, but it's worth it! Plant these gorgeous woodland wildflowers for a blanket of yellow every spring.
By Mary Ellen Ellis
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Did You Know There’s a Flower to Represent Your Wedding Anniversary? Here’s What It SymbolizesWhether it’s your first, fifth, or 60th wedding anniversary (congratulations!), you’d best believe that there’s a special flower to mark each milestone…
By Kayleigh Dray
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The Outrageously Pretty Perennial You’ve Probably Never Heard Of (But Is So Easy to Grow)Blue is the color, and pretty flowers are the game...
By Kayleigh Dray
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Everything You Need to Know to Grow Healthy Daffodils, Year after YearDaffodils are tough, deer-resistant, and low-maintenance. Master the essentials of soil drainage, bulb depth, and division to fill your garden with gold.
By Liz Baessler
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Plant These 5 Trees as Bare Roots Before Winter's End – and Get Better Results for Less MoneyPlanting bare root trees and shrubs is a cost-effective way to get gorgeous specimen plants, but you need to act now. Bare roots need to be planted in dormancy.
By Teo Spengler





