If you’re looking for a plant that brings color and charm to the late winter garden, few flowers are as treasured as the hellebore. Known for their long-lasting blooms, shade tolerance, and deer resistance, hellebores are a gardener’s dream. But these beauties truly shine when paired with the right hellebore companion plants. By choosing thoughtful combinations, you can extend the season of interest, create stunning floral displays and container gardens, and make the most of your garden during the season when most plants sleep.
The Best Flower Seeds to Start in Fall
Come September, most people start packing away their gardening gloves as summer draws to a close, convinced that the growing season is behind them. But here’s the thing: autumn is actually one of the best times of year to work in your garden. While fall has long been associated with a time to plant bulbs, it’s also a great time to start flower seeds. Whether you’re planning for a whimsical spring garden, full of perennial flowers, or you’d love a few pops of annual color before winter really sets in, fall sowing gives you a head start. If you’ve ever wondered about the best seedlings to plant in autumn and how to set them up for success this is your guide!
Fall Container Garden Guide – The Best Tips and Ideas
As the long days of summer begin to fade and crisp autumn air rolls in, it’s the perfect time to refresh your outdoor spaces by adding a pop of color with a fall container garden. If you live in a warmer climate like I do, we can just pretend we feel the cool fall air. Whether you want to grow cool-season vegetables, highlight vibrant fall flowers, or simply add cozy seasonal charm to your front porch, container gardening makes it easy to transition your home decor from summer to fall.
Fall Blooming Perennial Flowers – The Best Plants for a Beautiful Autumn Garden
There’s something magical about a garden that carries its summertime beauty into fall. As summer’s blooms begin to fade, fall blooming perennial flowers take center stage, filling garden beds, borders, and containers with rich color, texture, and structure. Whether you’re designing a fall perennial garden from scratch or enhancing your existing beds, these fall blooming plants will help your garden look incredible as the seasons change.
Climbing Roses – The Best Garden Design Ideas + Care Tips
Few plants evoke romance and whimsical charm like climbing roses. Their prolific blooms and graceful vines turn garden walls, arbors, trellises, pergolas, and even the sides of your home, into a scene straight from a fairytale. Whether you’re dreaming of a wild English cottage garden or an elegant formal garden, you can’t go wrong by adding climbing roses to your garden design plan. This post has advice to help you grow beautiful climbing roses, with tips for training, pruning, fertilizing, propagating, and companion planting, in addition to the inspiration you need to start planning your garden today.
The Best Ground Covers for Your Garden
There’s something so charming about a stone garden pathway with a flowering ground cover peeking through the cracks. However, ground covers aren’t just about aesthetics, they can also help define garden spaces, suppress weeds, reduce erosion, support pollinators, and even add a touch of fragrance to your garden. If you’re looking for low-maintenance landscaping suggestions that feel elevated yet natural, here are the best ideas for garden ground covers!
How to Design a Spectacular Hillside Garden
Designing a garden on a slope might seem daunting at first, but with the right approach, a hillside garden can easily become a focal point of your landscape. Whether you’re working with a gentle incline or a steep hill, there are so many ways to turn that space into something both practical and picturesque. From terraced garden beds to charming stone steps that wind through the trees, sloped gardens offer many unique design possibilities. In this post, we’ll walk through design tips, low-maintenance plants, and hardscaping ideas like retaining walls and pathways.
Japanese Maple Landscaping – Your Guide to Designing a Beautiful Garden
Japanese maples bring four-season interest to the garden with delicate spring foliage, rich summer color, fiery autumn leaves, and beautiful bare winter structure. Their size makes them ideal for layering in beds or showcasing as focal points, and they thrive in partial shade, making them a versatile option under tree canopies or in dappled light corners.
They come in hundreds of cultivars with variations in leaf shape, size, color, and form, from low-growing mounding types to upright trees reaching 15 to 25 feet tall.
Learn how to design a beautiful landscape with Japanese maples with this comprehensive guide!
7 Limelight Hydrangea Companion Planting Ideas You Need To Try
Limelight hydrangeas have long held a beloved place in the garden world. With their cone-shaped chartreuse blooms that shift to soft pinks in late summer and fall, Limelight hydrangeas add color, structure, and drama to any landscape. But as beautiful as these shrubs are on their own, pairing them with the right companion planting scheme for your Limelight hydrangeas can really elevate your entire garden design.
9 Stunning White and Green Plant Combinations That Will Instantly Enhance Your Garden
White gardens have a timeless elegance that has captured the hearts of many gardeners over the years. The combination of soft white flowers contrasted with different shades and textures of green foliage creates a simple and cohesive color palette. Whether you’re designing a shaded woodland garden, a formal parterre garden, or a relaxed cottage garden, this color scheme will work beautifully. Below, I’ve curated a selection of 9 white and green plant pairings that thrive in similar zones and complement a range of garden styles.
Azalea Landscaping 101: How to Create a Colorful, Captivating Garden
Azaleas are one of the most beloved and familiar shrubs in Southern gardens. Their beautiful flowers famously make an appearance at the Masters each spring! With their vibrant blooms, evergreen foliage, and graceful form, azaleas add both year-round interest and a burst of color to any landscape. Whether you’re planning a formal garden or a romantic woodland garden, azaleas are an excellent choice to include in your landscape plan. In this post, we’ll explore the history of azaleas, how to grow them successfully, and how to master azalea landscaping.
The Best Garden Edging Ideas to Instantly Elevate Your Landscaping
A well-defined edge can transform your garden, adding structure and beauty while keeping plants neatly contained. Whether you’re going for a charming cottage garden look or an elegant formal garden, choosing the right garden edging material enhances your landscape’s style. In this post, we’ll cover popular garden edging materials, along with their pros and cons, and beautiful ideas to implement in your own garden. Plus, we’ll discuss where to place edging in your garden for maximum impact!
