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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Strawberry Sundae Hydrangea Brings Sweet, Color-Changing Blooms – Here’s How to Grow It
Learn how to care for a beautiful Strawberry Sundae hydrangea – the compact shrub that changes color throughout the season.
By Teo Spengler
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Don't Kill Your Peonies With Kindness This April – Avoid These 3 Common Pitfalls or You Risk Missing Out on This Year's Blooms
Loving your peonies is understandable, but the wrong sort of attention could cost you those pillowy blooms. Here are 3 kindness traps to avoid in April to guarantee your front row seat for the ultimate flower show
By Janey Goulding
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What to Do with Japanese Maples in April – Prep Your Tree for a Spectacular Season
April is when Japanese maples are just waking up from their winter dormancy. Now's the time to pounce to ensure a successful year.
By Teo Spengler
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6 Surprising Privacy Plants To Screen Your Garden if You’ve Already Had Enough of Your Annoying Neighbors This Year
When you’re planting for privacy, using layers of airy planting is the smart and stylish DIY solution to screen your backyard from prying neighbors.
By Emma Kendell
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What to Do With Orchids in April for Maximum Blooms – The Easy Spring Reset to Keep Them Flowering for Months
Many orchids enter a new growth phase in April, making it the ideal time to refresh care routines, check roots, and encourage healthy new leaves and spikes.
By Tyler Schuster
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8 Unique Tulip Varieties To Spice Up Your Spring Garden With Bold Colors & Stunning Blooms
Most tulips you see in spring are bright solid colors that are cheerful but forgettable. Add some pizazz to your beds with these unique tulip varieties instead.
By Tyler Schuster
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Do This One Vital Task as Soon as Peony Shoots Emerge For Bigger, More Abundant Flowers
As soon as you spot those distinctive red shoots in spring, take 10 minutes to do this easy job and you’ll fuel your peony plant to produce luxuriously big blooms.
By Emma Kendell
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8 Fast-Growing Flowering Giants – For Easy Garden Privacy with Gorgeous Blooms
Before investing in expensive fencing, why not just big up your borders? These high-impact flower towers offer natural screening and jaw-dropping color
By Mary Ellen Ellis
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I Waited All Year for Home Depot’s Spring Black Friday — Here Are the Flowering Shrubs I'm Buying Before They Sell Out
Here are the best roses, hydrangeas, azaleas, and one must-have peony to snag before they sell out!
By Allie Kerkhoff
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7 Easy-Sow Seeds to Start in April & Fill Your Backyard With Colorful Flowers – You’ll Get So Many Blooms For Your Bucks & Plug Border Gaps, Fast
Picking unusual varieties of quick-growing garden plants is the fastest way to fill border gaps with fabulous flowers this summer. Ready, set, sow!
By Emma Kendell
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8 Fastest Growing Perennials to Fill Gaps and Bare Patches in Your Garden – It's the Easiest Way to Add Color
Fill bare patches fast, and help pollinators thrive! These native plants will turn empty soil into a buzzing, beautiful garden in no time...
By Kayleigh Dray
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Azalea Bonsai Guide: How to Grow and Care for This Long-Lived, Flowering Beauty
With their vibrant flowers and elegant, sculptural form, azalea bonsai are among the most beautiful miniature trees you can grow. Here’s how to care for them properly so they thrive year after year.
By Bonnie L. Grant
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3 April Feeding Secrets for the Biggest Hydrangea Blooms (Plus 1 Thing You Should Definitely Skip)
Want dinner-plate hydrangea blooms this summer? The key is a three-course meal you need to dish up now! Here are the three feeding essentials they need (and one they don’t)
By Tyler Schuster
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My Borders Stay Weed-Free All Summer Thanks to This One Plant – and its Fragrance is as Fabulous as its Flowers
Creeping phlox is a pretty groundcover that's polite enough to skirt around bigger plants yet its dense mat of semi-evergreen leaves smothers weed seedlings for maintenance-free beds.
By Emma Kendell
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How to Grow Coral Bells for a Gorgeous Pop of Color in the Shade Garden
Coral bells are beloved for their beautiful foliage and tall, whimsical flowers that thrive in shade. Here's everything you need to know to grow them.
By Amy Grant
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Be Bold and Prune These 8 Evergreen Shrubs in April: You’ll Get Lush Results That Last, Even if You’re a Beginner Gardener
It’s daunting to snip stems just as they start re-growing in spring, we know, but show these shrubs some tough love with a prune now and they’ll stay in shape for the rest of the year.
By Emma Kendell
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Sweet Pea Fertilizer Guide: The Ultimate Manual for Massive Blooms
Want showstopper sweet peas? Learn the exact balance needed to fuel lush vines and vibrant blooms all season long.
By Tyler Schuster





