Flower Gardening

Bring color and beauty to your garden with our flower gardening tips and inspiration. Learn how to plant, grow, and care for stunning blooms all season long — from perennials and annuals to bulbs and wildflowers. Whether you’re creating a pollinator-friendly garden or designing vibrant flower beds, our guides help you grow a garden that blossoms with life and color.

Several peony divisions spaced evenly in a freshly dug garden bed. Several peony divisions spaced evenly in a freshly dug garden bed.

Are you a gardening enthusiast looking to enhance the beauty of your outdoor space with peonies? If so, you may be wondering when the best time is to separate these gorgeous plants.   Separating peonies is a crucial step in their growth process, and it can help promote healthier plants and more abundant blooms. In…

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Learn the best time to prune lilacs to keep them healthy and blooming beautifully. Discover expert tips for shaping, timing, and encouraging next year’s flowers. Learn the best time to prune lilacs to keep them healthy and blooming beautifully. Discover expert tips for shaping, timing, and encouraging next year’s flowers.

If you have lilacs in your garden, you know how beautiful they can be when they bloom. However, to keep them looking their best, you need to know when to cut them back. Knowing when to cut back lilacs is essential to maintaining their health and promoting optimal growth. The best time to cut back…

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Colorful butterfly perched on purple flowers in a garden Colorful butterfly perched on purple flowers in a garden

Want to bring more color, life, and movement to your garden? Butterflies are not only beautiful to watch but also vital pollinators. By planting the right flowers and foliage, you can turn your outdoor space into a butterfly garden haven. Here are 11 of the best plants to attract butterflies and keep them coming back…

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Bright lantana flowers blooming in a butterfly-friendly garden Bright lantana flowers blooming in a butterfly-friendly garden

If you want to attract butterflies to your garden, growing lantana is a great choice. Lantana produces bright, colorful flowers that butterflies love, making it an easy way to invite these beautiful pollinators to your outdoor space. It is a hardy plant that can will grow in heat and drought, so it fits well in many garden…

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Milkweed flowers blooming in a butterfly-friendly garden Milkweed flowers blooming in a butterfly-friendly garden

If you want to create a butterfly garden that truly supports monarch butterflies, planting milkweed is essential. Milkweed is the only plant where monarch caterpillars can survive and grow. Growing milkweed in your butterfly garden helps provide food and habitat for these butterflies, which are facing habitat loss in the wild. Milkweed also offers beautiful flowers…

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