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Flower gardening enthusiasts can learn which flowering plants work best in their landscape. View flower garden designs and flower garden pictures to help you choose annuals and perennials for your region.
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Every flower gardener has yearned for the perfect cottage garden at one time or another. There is something to take away from each of these divine landscapes.

Flower Garden Care 101
Grow flowers like the pros, by taking care of these six garden essentials.

Why Flowers Die, Plus 5 Ways to Keep Them Alive
Learn the solutions to five common flower garden problems.


Fall flowers give the gardener one last chance to enjoy autumn blooms outdoors before first frost.

6 Ways to Get More Blooms From Your Roses
Learn how to get more blooms from your rose bushes in the flower garden.

Choose the Right Flower Fertilizer Type
Bring flower power to your landscape with a fertilizer formula that promotes healthy roots, foliage, and blossoms.


The wee folk will be climbing over each other to claim their spots in your enchanted miniature garden.

7 Ways to Enjoy Amaryllis Flowers and Bulbs
Are giant amaryllis flowers too much of a good thing? Learn how to give, grow, and get more of this holiday go-to plant.

5 Flower Gardening Gift Ideas for Mother’s Day
Gardening moms appreciate tools and supplies that help their flower garden shine.

4 Ways to Get Cheap or Free Flower Gardening Supplies
Flower gardening can be a part of everyone's budget if you take advantage of these sources of free soil amendments and planting materials.

4 Alternatives to Peat Moss in the Flower Garden
Peat moss is a common soil amendment, but its harvest is environmentally unfriendly. Learn about soil improvement alternatives for the flower garden.

10 Flowers to Grow in a Xeriscape
Gardeners can grow flowering plants all season in dry regions with little or no supplemental watering. Look at pictures of 10 xeriscape flowers that grow throughout the United States.

Planning, Planting, and Maintaining the Flower Garden
Ensure success in the flower garden by learning about flower planting, flower garden maintenance, garden diseases and pests, and organic gardening methods. Look at flower garden pictures to get ideas for your landscape.

The Best Rose for Your Garden
Discover easy to grow roses that bloom in spite of pests and poor weather.

Fleuroselect Gold Medal Winning Flowers for 2012
Fleuroselect chose five outstanding annual and perennial flowers for its 2012 gold medal awards, including a hummingbird mint, coneflower, hollyhock, salvia, and viola.

Flower Garden Solutions for Problem Areas
Combat problem areas in your flowerbeds with soil amendments and tough flowering plants.

Chocolate Scented Fragrant Flowers
Indulge your love for chocolate with these cocoa scented blooms.

10 Reasons You Will Love Flower Gardening in Winter
Don't look mournfully out the window at your winter flower garden. Get out there, and get to work!


Join the hell strip garden movement, and transform that dull patch of lawn between your sidewalk and street.


Grow these flower bouquet favorites for home decorating, weddings, or gift giving. Roses, lilies, and other florist flowers are easy to grow without chemicals.

Starting Flower Seeds With Kids
Starting seeds with kids is the first step to get them interested in flower gardening.

Unusual Flowers for the Garden
Gardeners tired of the same bedding plants can grow these unusual flowers as a conversation piece.


Flowerbed Mulching 101
Learn how, why, and when to mulch your flowerbeds for a healthy garden.


Boats make eye-catching large containers for the flower garden.

Mulch Types for Flowerbeds
Explore the range of mulch types for your healthy flower garden.

Best Green Flowers for the Garden
Mint, chartreuse, and lime flowers will pop against every other flower color, becoming your go-to neutral.

Trace Plant Nutrients in the Flower Garden
There are six important trace elements in healthy garden soil. Gardeners can correct poorly performing flowering plants with natural soil amendments.

Recycling Garden Pots and Biodegradable Flower Pots
Keep plastics out of the waste stream by reducing or eliminating your use of non-recyclable plastic gardening pots and trays.

Grow Flowers in Hot Dry Gardens
Learn how to grow flowers in hot, dry gardens.

Summer Flower Garden Care
Keep your flower garden blooming until frost by providing the right fertilizer, mulch, and disease control care.

Garden Tuteurs
More than a simple garden trellis, a tuteur brings beauty and function to the flower garden.

Fleuroselect Gold Medal Winning Flowers for 2014
Fleuroselect chose six annual and perennial flowers of exceptional quality for its 2014 Gold Medal awards.

6 Ways to Improve Clay Soil in the Flower Garden
Clay soil presents drainage and landscaping challenges in the garden, but you can choose flowering plants and gardening methods to improve clay.

Bog Garden Flowers
Bog garden flowers can light up the soggy part of the landscape.

Balcony Gardening for Beginners
A flowering balcony garden is your tiny urban oasis.

Caring for Plant Roots in the Flower Garden
Flower gardeners must learn how to prevent root diseases and care for plant roots with fertilizers for a thriving landscape.

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