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What is your flower garden style? Is your flower garden informal or formal? Does it look the way you want? What if your flower garden looks like a terrible mistake!

Introducing height into the garden can be accomplished by using plants, garden structures, fountains and even a mound of earth.

Cottage gardens should be filled with flowers all season long. Grow these pretty and popular annual flowers for masses of easy color in the cottage garden.

A great inexpensive last-minute hostess gift is a bouquet from your garden.

Many flower gardeners worry about their garden design skills. Be brave! You can do this just fine with a little practice (and a good sharp transplanting spade!)

How to start your new flower bed or flower garden. Simple overview of flower garden basics to help you start out right: where to put it, soil preparation, style and size.

Marigold flowers are an annual flower that you only need to purchase once for years of beautiful flower gardens.

When gardeners think about flowers to add to their edible landscapes, they usually consider annual or perennial flowers. But these shrubs have kitchen-worthy uses too.

July and August in Texas can sometimes seem devoid of color. The roadsides and even some lawns are turning brown and the sky is white-hot with only a trace of light blue.

Garden designers agree that red colored plants in the garden can greatly affect the senses of those who view them. When red is used sparingly it can be beautiful.

Every white garden or moon garden needs white flowered shrubs, either as a surrounding hedge or within the garden itself as an accent. Consider some of these!

Try these combinations of favorite spring flowers in your next container gardening project.

Flowers add color and beauty to the landscape. Capturing some of that beauty by cutting and placing it in a vase will reward friends and family.

A shaded white garden or moon garden can be the most magical of all: sharp contrasts of white flowers and silvery foliage against deep shadows and dark corners. Oooh!

You don't have to spend a ton of money to have a beautiful flower garden. There are many ways to get the look you desire without emptying your wallet every year.

Compost provides a wealth of nutrients and organic matter for use in soil amendments for home gardens. Plants will be stronger and healthier when composting is used.

Welcome, flower gardeners! (Part 2) Introducing Barbara Martin’s new Flower Gardens: future flower gardening articles, advice, how-to tips, techniques, new flower varieti

Flowers for beach gardens in the USA can be both colorful and exotic; suitable salt tolerant species of beach flowers include bougainvillea, ivy geranium and day lily.

Flower pots and plant containers add interest to all types of gardens. Correctly chosen plant containers from terracotta pots to stone urns enhance all garden locations.

Adults can instill a lifelong love of gardening and educate children about the natural world by helping them create their own gardens.

Welcome to Flower Gardens! We’ll help you design and grow your dream flower garden. Practical Advice and Inspiration for the beginning and advanced flower gardener. How t

Delphiniums and Astilbes are gorgeous perennial plants with outstanding and unique blossoms. Learn which three species in each genus rains supreme over the rest.

A country garden of one's own will ease the stress of living in the concrete jungle. There are lots of ways to bring that relaxed style into a small city space.

Plumeria, commonly called the Frangipani Tree, has acquired mystical status in Southeast Asia. It is an ornamental tree with scented flowers that is easy to grow.

A marigold is a marigold, but what makes one a "Snowman" and another a "Jaguar"? Knowing about varieties (cultivars) helps you pick the best one for your flower garden.

Select the right named variety of annual flower to grow a specific color or height flower, complete a theme garden, or to try something new and improved -- or different.

Brighten up summer gardens with bedding plants. They are ideal for spectacular color displays or as container plants. Check out Salvia, Geraniums, Violas and many more.

If you want a blue flowered theme garden or just like blue flowers in your flower garden, be sure to plant some of these blue flowering perennials.

There is good news for lovers of rock gardens and blue flowers: an abundance of choices awaits. Among these are Asia bell and corydalis.

Winterberry Hollies add color to the winter landscape with red and gold fruit. But not every female holly likes every male holly...

Organic gardeners can plant wildflower meadows as a low maintenance lawn alternative. However, wildflowers need a modicum of care to improve blooming and prevent weeds.

A regular program of watering, fertilizing, spraying and clipping, can keep a flowerbed or garden looking bright and attractive all season long.

Use Weeping Winter Jasmine, Clematis, Honeysuckle and other climbing plants to color winter gardens. Vigorous climbing plants can be used for cover of unsightly walls.

This is the final article in the series about how to design the white garden or moon garden by planting white flowered plants and silver or blue foliage in a theme garden

Hidcote Garden is the work of an American who became one of the most influential gardeners of the 20th Century on his estate tucked into the Gloucestershire Cotswolds.

Design a perfect tiny fairy theme garden for flower fairies or flower faeries. Plant favorite fairy flowers, add the best fairy toys, treasures and trinkets.

Athens Select™ Plants and Southern Living™ Plant Collections team up in 2009 to bring flowering plants to gardeners in warm and humid southern landscapes.

Container gardening ideas begin with the vessel. When choosing garden containers consider what is needed to water container plants.

Gardening can be hard physical work but also enjoyable and addicting, if you have the right tools.

Properly preparing the home and gardens for the winter season is just as important as the work that is put into them to keep them beautiful during the growing season.

Looking for an interesting way to add sound, scent, privacy and texture to your garden? Try one of these scented grasses!

Plant a scented garden in any garden theme. Use hostas with fragrant flowers in a shade garden to attract hummingbirds or flowers with scented leaves butterflies love.

It's hard to find a flower that exceeds the Zinnia in beauty and ease of care. This sun worshiper makes a striking impact in any yard soon after seeds are sown.

Many of the flowering plants available in today's garden centers and catalogs are mass produced hybrids. Old fashioned heirlooms have more character and beauty.

In the fall of 2006 beekeepers nationwide began noticing honeybee colonies disappearing in large numbers without known reason.

Tips on figuring out how many flower plants you need to complete your flower garden design and how to space your plants in the flower garden.

Use these plant spacing tips and tricks to plan and plant your flower garden using just the right number of plants. (Part 2)

If you love flowers but don't have any place to grow them outside, you can plant a bucket garden. This flower garden can adorn your porch and can be moved if necessary.

Impatiens are perfect in baskets, window boxes, borders, and shaded areas. Colors range from whites and pinks to peaches and reds. Impatiens bloom from summer to frost.

An easy tutorial on how to plant and grow a beautiful long blooming daisy, the moon daisy.