When and How to Plant Marigold Seeds

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Ready to plant marigolds from seed for bright summer blooms? Planting marigolds from seed is easy, but you’ll want to know when you should start these annual flower seeds indoors – and when you can sow the seeds right into your garden soil. Learn more about how and when to plant marigolds from seed. Read more now.

How to Grow Petunias in Containers

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A mainstay in garden containers, easy-care petunias add bright colors, fragrance, and fantastic forms wherever they’re planted. Use mounding ones for planters and trailing ones for pretty spillers in hanging baskets and window boxes. Get all the details in our how-to guide to petunia container care. Read more.

How to Grow Dahlias in Pots and Containers

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Don’t have a big area to plant your dream dahlia garden? No problem, grow your dahlias in containers. These cottage garden favorites lend themselves nicely to potting so you can enjoy their incomparable beauty even if you’re short on space. This guide explains how to plant and care for dahlias in pots. Read more now.

How to Grow and Care for White Wood Asters

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White wood asters display masses of tiny white blossoms from late summer to fall. Their mounded forms brighten shady areas of the landscape and attract beneficial pollinators. Read on for all you need to know to grow white wood asters and enjoy this rustic, informal late-season attraction in your outdoor living space.

Why Your Fuchsia Is Dropping Buds and How to Fix It

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Is there anything more devastating than buds dropping from your fuchsia plants? You start to get super excited for the beautiful flowers to put on their summer show, but before they do, they fall to the ground. This guide helps you figure out why it’s happening and how to stop it so you can enjoy your flowers.

How to Grow Roses in Containers

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Roses make a bold statement when you grow them in containers. The decadent scent and elegant blossoms are brought closer to our senses in pots. This guide will help you understand how to plant and care for potted roses, including pruning and fertilizing. We’ll also help you pick a few of the best varieties for pots.

How to Grow and Care for Tulip Flowers

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The tulip is an iconic spring bulb flower that is available in an array of colors. It is a perennial that is often grown as an annual. Read on for all you need to know to select bulbs, grow and care for plants, and manage pests and disease. Discover exciting varieties and companion planting ideas in this handy guide.

How to Grow and Care for Wax Begonias

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The wax begonia has it all: a delightful habit, an extended blooming period, striking flowers, and beautifully glossy leaves. Able to grow in a variety of light exposures, Begonia x semperflorens-cultorum is easy to cultivate. And it’ll be even easier after reading our guide, which covers everything you need to know!

All About Rose Growing Habits

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No doubt you’ve seen shrub roses, but did you know they can also be climbers or ground covers? Roses come in a number of different growing styles, including bushy, rambling, or even tree shapes. This guide will walk you through all the different styles so you can better narrow down what will work for you in your space.

How to Use Nasturtiums for Pest Control

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Nasturtiums are multipurpose plants that can help to control pests in your garden the natural way, without chemicals. You can use them as trap crops or to repel unwelcome insects. This guide shows you everything you need to know about using nasturtiums to control 7 common garden pests, such as squash bugs and aphids.

How to Grow and Care for Four O’Clock Flowers

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Four o’clocks bloom in the late afternoon, which is just part of their appeal. They also thrive in poor soil, resist drought, and sprout easily from seed. Our guide explains how to tend this old-fashioned cottage garden flower, from selecting cultivars to overwintering to saving seeds. It’s time to grow four o’clocks.

How to Grow and Care for Ornamental Alliums

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Ornamental alliums are versatile plants that add an architectural element to the garden. They’re also incredibly varied, with blossoms that may look like little yellow starbursts or others with purple softball-sized flower heads. Plus, they don’t require much maintenance. If you like the sound of this, then read on!

How to Grow Pot Marigold (Calendula) Flowers

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Pot marigold, also known as calendula, is an annual herb that blooms with spectacular yellow, orange, and gold flowers. With a history of medicinal use, the edible flowers can be made into a variety of herbal remedies, used in cooking, or brewed in a soothing tea. Learn how to plant and grow calendula in this guide.

29 of the Best Self-Seeding Perennials

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A plant that seeds itself and returns the following year is a treat for gardeners who don’t have the time or money to fill a large garden area. You can encourage them to spread into new spots or just let them do their thing. This guide introduces 29 of the best ornamental perennials that will self-sow in the garden.

Types of Tulip Flowers: 15 Beautiful Divisions

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Tulips are a favorite among springtime flowering bulbs for many gardeners, available in a wide selection of sizes, colors, and styles with early, mid-season, and late bloom times. But what type should you choose for your garden? Learn more about the different varieties of tulips, grouped into 15 divisions. Read more.

How to Grow and Care for Painted Daisies

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For pest-resistant blooms that add striking color and a graceful form to the landscape, painted daisy is the perfect perennial. Easy to grow and even easier on the eyes, Tanacetum coccineum has all sorts of gardening applications! In this guide, you’ll learn exactly how to grow and care for these beauties.

How to Grow and Care for Passionflowers

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Passionflower has a long history of cultivation for the unique beauty of its blooms and delicious, tropical fruits. This fast-growing vine will reward you with beautiful blooms from spring through fall and attract pollinators to your garden. Learn how to plant and grow passionflower in your garden. Read more now.

How to Grow and Care for Wood Hyacinth (Spanish Bluebell)

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Wood hyacinth, aka Spanish bluebell, is a spring bulb that sports bright green foliage and blue, pink, or white bell-shaped blooms. This hardy plant is easy to grow in drifts under trees, in containers, and in garden beds and borders. Learn how to plant and grow this robust, showy perennial in this guide. Read more now.

How to Grow and Care for Portulaca (Moss Rose)

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With bright colors, fast growth, and good drought tolerance, portulaca is an easy-care annual for many garden settings. These low-growing succulents are superb for edging, spreading in hot, dry areas, or spilling through rockeries and out of hanging baskets. Read on to learn how to grow and care for moss rose.

How and When to Deadhead Roses

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If you want to grow show-stopping roses, you’re going to need to know all about deadheading. Understanding why we deadhead, when to do it, and most importantly, the right way to go about it, is key to making the most of your rose bushes. This guide explains all the ins and outs to make you a true deadheading expert.

How to Plant and Grow Daylilies: The Ultimate Carefree Perennial

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The daylily is one of America’s favorite perennials, and with good reason. It is an easy-to-grow plant with extended periods of flowering, and is susceptible to few ailments. Practically required in your perennial borders, we share all the tips you’ll need. Read more about this lovely perennial now on Gardener’s Path.

How to Grow and Care for Rugosa Roses

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Love roses but hate how difficult they can be to grow? There’s an option that doesn’t need winter protection and resists all those common rose pests and diseases. Rugosa roses are beautiful on the outside but hide a tough interior. Learn how to plant and care for tough, hardy, and resilient rugosa roses.

How to Grow Peony Tulips in Your Garden

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Have you ever wanted to grow a tulip that looks like a peony? Well, you totally can, and in this guide we’ll show you how. Peony tulip blooms last longer than actual peonies, and these flowers are just as deliciously fancy. Learn everything you need to know about growing peony tulips in our guide. Read more now.

Grow Mexican Petunias (Ruellia Simplex) for a Heat and Shade Tolerant Perennial

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If you’re looking for a versatile, low-maintenance shade plant that does well in the sun, too, consider Mexican petunia, aka Ruellia simplex. Sporting purple, pink, or white blooms, this easy-care hardy perennial comes in varieties short and tall, and you’ll love its slender, droopy leaves and sometimes-purple stems.

How to Propagate Orchids from Seed

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Once you’ve mastered cultivating orchids, the next step is propagating them from seed. This isn’t a task for beginners – it’s a major challenge! This guide walks you through the entire process to help make it easier and set you up for success. It really is possible to grow orchids from seed. Here’s how.

How to Grow and Care for Bells of Ireland

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For an upright-growing, light green annual with distinctive-looking blooms, how about giving bells of Ireland a shot? This plant is gorgeous and easy to care for, and its appearance sets it apart from practically every other plant. In our guide, you’ll learn exactly how to grow and care for this beautiful specimen.

Easy Bulb Propagation for the Home Gardener

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Bulbs add beautiful blooms to the garden, and many of them will happily multiply and naturalize on their own. But some, usually the expensive ones, are more reluctant to divide and need manual manipulation for offspring to form. Join us now for all the details on how to successfully propagate your own bulbs at home.

Grow Cardinal Climber for Spring to Frost Color

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Cardinal climber is a tender annual vine with red trumpet-like blossoms and palm-like leaves. Give it room to sprawl across a fence or up a trellis for pops of intense color from summer to frost. Discover how this hybrid was created and learn all you need to know to grow it in your landscape, here on Gardener’s Path.

How to Grow Zinnias in Containers

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Easy-care annual zinnias are loved for their long-lasting flowers with hot, vivid colors. Blooming all summer long, the single, semi-double, or double blooms make beautiful cut flowers and they’re ideal for pots placed in a sunny location. Get all the cultivation details in our zinnia container care guide. Read more now.

How to Grow and Care for Virginia Bluebells

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Native to North America, the Virginia bluebell is an early spring blooming plant that sports flowers in shades of purple, pink, and blue. Plus, this cool weather, moisture, and shade-loving plant is easy to grow. Read more now to learn all about propagating and caring for this perennial, ephemeral beauty.

How to Identify and Treat Rose Rust

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Rose rust is becoming more and more common, and it’s challenging to deal with. Once it takes hold, it can be downright impossible to eliminate. This explains how to identify and deal with this fungal disease, including some excellent resistant options, so you can enjoy your roses without the rust drama.

How and When to Prune Morning Glory Vines

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Morning glory vines can grow over 10 feet tall with colorful displays of flowers through the summer. Left unmanaged, they can quickly grow out of control. Plants should be pruned throughout the season to keep the aggressively growing vines in check and encourage blooming. Read on to learn how to trim morning glories.

How to Grow and Care for Parrot Tulips in the Spring Garden

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The parrot tulip is an intriguing mid- to late-spring bloomer. Vibrant colors play across petals that ruffle and curl like exotic birds in flight. Mass plant for exceptional curb appeal. Scatter through beds and borders. Get parrot tulip growing tips now, and enjoy botanical garden quality blooms in your own backyard.

Health Benefits of Rose Hips

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These hips don’t lie! Roses offer utility that goes beyond their floral beauty, providing edible fruits as well. Rose hips pack a nutritional punch, bringing vitamins, antioxidants, and more to the table. A variety of culinary uses will make them easy to incorporate into your diet. Read more now to get started.

15 of the Best Morning Glory Varieties for Home Gardeners

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Easy to grow and vigorous, with striking blooms, the morning glory is a go-to option when you need a lot of space covered fast. Plenty of colorful options are available to coordinate with your existing plantings. Check out 15 of the best morning glory varieties and find your favorites now.

How to Deadhead Blooming Plants in the Garden

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Are you familiar with the type of pruning known as deadheading? If you are a gardener, we invite you to join us as we define deadheading, and discuss how this technique varies with different plants. Learn the benefits of the practice, and ways to build it into your busy schedule with minimal effort. Read more now.

9 Reasons Why Tulip Leaves May Turn Yellow Prematurely

Healthy tulips have fleshy green foliage and bare, vertical flower stems. After blooming, it’s normal for the foliage to turn yellow and then brown. However, sometimes the leaves turn yellow early in the growing season. This spells trouble. Read on to learn the likely causes and how to avoid them with future plantings.

How to Grow Morning Glory Vines in Containers

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Morning glories are rapidly growing vines with attractive foliage and showy flowers that open each morning through the summer. Learn to grow them in containers and enjoy these colorful blooms without worry about the vines taking over your garden. Read on for more about growing and caring for potted morning glory vines.

How to Grow and Care for Borage Plants

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Borage is an easy to grow annual herb with tasty leaves long prized by chefs and herbalists. Its edible, star-shaped blossoms are beloved by bees and other beneficial insects and pollinators. This versatile herb can also be used as a cover crop. Learn how to plant and grow borage now in your landscape. Read more now.

How to Grow and Care for Stokes’ Asters

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Stokes’ asters are suited to home gardens in Zones 5 to 9. Enjoy blue, pink, purple, white, or yellow blossoms on plants with a height of 12 to 24 inches and a spread of 12 to 18 inches. Showcase the species and cultivated varieties in beds, borders, and mass-planted drifts. Read on for growing and care instructions.

When and How to Plant Borage Seeds

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Borage is an easy to grow herb with tasty leaves and pretty, edible blossoms that attract a variety of pollinators. It can also be used as a cover crop in the garden. It’s easy to start from seed, if you keep a few points in mind. Learn how and when to plant borage seeds to enjoy this herb in your landscape.

Tips for Growing Fabulous Tree Roses

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Tree roses are the crown jewel in a garden. They make an impressive impact with their stand-out shape and stunning floral display. That is, so long as you know the right way to plant, prune, and care for these beauties. In this guide, we’ll give you all the info you need to make your roses as pretty as they can be.

How to Plant and Grow Garden Phlox

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A beautiful perennial that flowers for months, phlox produces colorful clouds of fragrant and long-lasting blooms all summer long. Ideal in sunny beds, borders, and cottage gardens with lightly moist soil, they make an outstanding cut flower as well. Read on for the details on how to plant and grow garden phlox.

Crazy, Colorful Celosia: A Growing Guide

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A denizen of hot and well-drained gardens, celosia offers a kaleidoscopic array of colors and flower styles. From fan-shaped flowers to colorful plumes straight out of a Dr. Seuss story, you’re sure to find one just for you. Read on to learn how to care for this colorful flower for all-season color.

Azalea Bloom Times and Flowering Groups

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Azaleas are a mainstay of the spring garden, but the show doesn’t have to end just because the season does. With several summer and fall flowering specimens, you can enjoy their gorgeous floral display right until frosty temperatures arrive. Read all about azalea bloom times and flowering groups for months of flowers.

Here Comes the Sun: 15 Popular Sunflower Varieties

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Selecting the best sunflower cultivar to grow in your garden is a labor of love. This guide introduces many of the most popular, including mammoth seed-producers, sweet dwarfs for container gardening, and mid-size favorites in a range of colors. Discover 15 of the most popular sunflower varieties to choose from now.

How to Plant and Grow Lavender

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A robust woody subshrub, lavender is loved for its easy cultivation, beautiful purple flowers, and intense, sweet fragrance. English varieties are best for cold winters, French and Spanish types are good in high humidity, and lavandins grow pretty much anywhere. Learn how to grow lavender in any climate in this guide.

When and How to Divide Daylilies

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Beautiful daylilies are herbaceous perennials that give a colorful display of bright summer flowers. Easily cultivated, the plants are wonderfully low maintenance but fast growing and benefit from occasional division to rejuvenate clumps and increase flower production. Learn how and when to divide daylilies now.

19 of the Best Reblooming Flowers for Months of Color

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Don’t say goodbye to spring flowers like lilacs, clematis, and magnolias once they start to fade away as summer approaches. These 19 reliable plants will rebloom for a second (or even third or fourth) showing of blossoms in the same growing season. Learn more about flowers that will rebloom in this guide.

How to Grow and Care for Strawflowers

Strawflower is a cutting garden annual that’s perfect for both fresh and dry arrangements. It’s daisy-like, with crisp, petal-like bracts in shades of orange, pink, purple, red, and white. For garden color from spring to frost, learn to grow strawflower now on Gardener’s Path.

How to Grow and Care for Queen Anne’s Lace

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Queen Anne’s lace, also known as bird’s nest, is the ancestor of delicious carrots. A common wildflower that adds texture and frilly white color to both gardens and cut flower bouquets, it attracts pollinators and beneficial insects as well. Learn how to grow this easy-care biennial in our guide. Read more now.

How to Protect Your Tulips from Deer

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Do you know who loves tulips just as much as you do? Deer, that’s who. They love the bulbs, leaves, and blossoms more than just about anything else. They’ll go out of their way, through deterrents and from afar, to find and eat tulips. In this guide, we’ll explain how to enjoy your tulips while keeping the deer away.

17 of the Best Red Petunias for Your Garden

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Petunias are known for their long-lasting, vibrant flowers and for being resistant to pests and disease. It’s no wonder they’re so popular. Looking for a little crimson? Longing for some speckled cardinal blossoms? In this guide, we share 17 red petunia options that will add bold color to your garden all season long.

How to Grow Joe-Pye Weed in Your Landscape or Garden

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Joe-pye weed is a tall, easy-to-grow native wildflower that shares its name with a Mohican chief. With vanilla-scented flowers, it draws hummingbirds, songbirds, and pollinating insects. Read our guide now to learn how to propagate, care for, and maintain this late-fall bloomer in a border, meadow, or cottage garden.

How to Pollinate and Collect Hybrid Snapdragon Seeds

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Snapdragons come in a range of colors, from magenta to white. And they’re easy to hybridize, so if you have some fine motor skills and patience, why not mix it up and create your own blends? To learn everything about how it works and to learn how to play bumblebee in your own snapdragon bed, read more now.

How to Transplant Rose Bushes

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Have a rose bush that;s growing in the wrong place? You don’t have to live with it. Instead, move your plant to a better spot in the garden. We’ll help you dig up and transplant your rose so it can thrive. From picking the right spot to getting it in the ground – without killing it in the process – our guide can help.

How to Grow Common Chicory

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Chicory is nutritious, with leaves that add a bright zing to salads. The roots can be also harvested and roasted to make a mean cup of coffee. It’s easy to grow and has pretty blue flowers that attract a variety of pollinators. In this guide, you’ll learn how to plant and grow chicory in your garden. Read more now.

How to Grow and Care for Deptford Pinks

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Deptford pinks are the daintiest Dianthus species with a gentle wildflower look that’s suitable for many garden settings. With good drought tolerance, they’re right at home in naturalized settings like woodland fringes, rockeries, and low-irrigation gardens. Learn how to grow and care for Deptford pinks in this guide.

Splash Your Garden in Blue with Bachelor’s Button (Cornflower)

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Bachelor’s button is a wildflower that has naturalized throughout the United States. From classic blue to shades of pink, purple, and white, it’s an invasive grower that likes space to roam. Learn about this country classic and see if it’s right for your backyard landscape. Read more now.

How to Grow Easy-Care Coreopsis (Tickseed)

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Coreopsis is a native perennial with cheerful flowers that keep blooming from spring to fall. These low maintenance, pollinator-friendly beauties are ideal for a planting in a wildflower meadow or to add color to beds and borders. Learn how to plant and grow coreopsis flowers in this guide. Read more now.

How to Grow and Care for Yarrow

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Yarrow is a flowering perennial that grows in USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 9. Flattened flower heads called corymbs create a carpet of velvety color in late spring and summer. Choose from shades of pink, red, white, and yellow. Drought and salt tolerant, you’ll find this plant easy to cultivate. Learn how to grow it now.

How to Grow and Care for Carnations

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Showy and perfumed, carnations are beloved in the garden for their colorful, ruffled flowers, heady fragrance, and easy care. Among the most popular of cut flowers, they have a long flowering season, blooming from late spring through to September with regular deadheading. Learn all you need to know to grow carnations.

How to Plant and Grow Nasturtium Flowers

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Bright and vibrant, nasturtiums are easy to grow and low maintenance. Nimble and fast growing, they’re fantastic climbers, fillers, spillers, and ground covers. They’re also edible and make an excellent companion plant in the vegetable plot. Learn how to plant and grow nasturtiums in this guide. Read more now.

How to Plant and Grow Sensational Sunflowers

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Is there anything more cheerful than the sight of a sunflower nodding in the gentle breeze? Not only are sunflowers beautiful, but they’re also edible. And if you think seeds are just for snacking, think again. Discover everything you need to know to grow sunflowers in your garden with this growing guide. Read more now.

How to Grow and Care for Gardenias

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Prized for their fragrant white flowers, gardenias grown outdoors need extra attention but will respond with multitudes of blooms and a spicy scent. Our guide explains how to grow traditional types and newer cold-hardy hybrids. Start with healthy plants and water, fertilize, and prune your way to a bonanza of blooms.

13 Flowering Plants Rabbits Will Leave Alone

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Want to close down the bunny salad bar in your garden? Grow flowering plants rabbits don’t like to eat! These annuals and perennials are beautiful, colorful, and rabbit-resistant. A few, like thyme and chives, are also delicious – to humans. Hop along, bunny, the flowering plants in this garden taste bad to rabbits.

How to Transplant and Care for Easter Lilies After Blooming

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With trumpet-like flowers of waxy white and a strong, heady fragrance, potted Easter lilies are a gorgeous accent in the home. And you can easily extend your enjoyment by moving them into the garden to flower for many more seasons to come. Learn how to transplant and care for Easter lilies after blooming in this guide.

How to Plant and Grow Blazing Star Flowers (Liatris Spicata)

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When hot summer temps and high humidity strike, the native prairie wildflower Liatris spicata, or blazing star, puts on an excellent show. Tall plumes of feathery purple flowers welcome extreme summer conditions and shine when delicate greenhouse plants wither. Get all the details on this North American perennial now.

69 Incredible Edible Flowers and How to Use Them

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You may be surrounded by edible flowers without even knowing it. Dianthus, begonia, and forsythia? Edible. Forget-me-nots, yuccas, and gladiolus? Delicious. Whether you want a little something to act as a colorful garnish, or you’re serious about using flowers to add flavor to your recipes, there are so many options.

How to Grow and Care for Camellia Flowers

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Camellia has been cultivated for more than 5,000 years for uses ranging from privacy hedges and winter beauty to oil and tea. These plants can thrive for more than one hundred years with proper care in shrub, hedge, or tree form, bringing beauty to your garden when other plants are dormant, year after year. Read more now.

How to Grow and Care for Douglas Iris

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Douglas irises are tough plants that can grow in challenging spots. But they don’t look like they’d be all that tough. They have elegant, colorful, delicate blossoms that can appear from spring to fall. Learn more about growing these beautiful North American natives, whether you have a shady spot or heavy clay soil.

How to Grow and Care for Petunias

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With eye-popping colors and an extra-long blooming season, petunias are popular annuals. The blooms can be blue, purple, yellow, or even striped. Plant petunia seeds or starts to grow in hanging baskets, borders, and containers. Our guide provides the best step-by-step instructions to care for these flowering beauties.

How to Grow and Care for Oleander Shrubs

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Evergreen oleander shrubs add tropical flair to the garden, blooming for months in vibrant shades of pink and red or delicate white. These low maintenance beauties thrive in poor soil, drought, high heat, and salt air and are suitable for cultivation in Zones 8-10. Learn how to plant and grow oleander in this guide.

How Many Types of Roses Are There? A Guide to Rose Classification

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Tea, damask, polyantha, oh my! There are so many kinds of roses that it can all get a bit confusing. If you’re wondering what a shrub rose or a tea rose is, or what separates modern roses from old garden roses, this is the guide for you. We’ll help you sort out all the details and choose the best varieties for your garden.

How to Plant and Grow Cleome (Spider Flower)

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Cleome, aka spider flower, is an unusual, eye-catching flower, with its impressive height and colorful, wispy blooms that add interest to the garden from early summer until first frost. It’s easy to grow and has few pest and disease issues. Learn how to plant and grow Cleome in your landscape in this guide. Read more now.

How to Propagate Roses from Cuttings

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Do you want to clone a rose plant that you adore? Taking cuttings is an easy way to make it happen. By snipping a stem from the parent plant and putting it in soil, you can encourage it to root and create a new rose plant. But of course, there’s more to it than that! In this guide, we’ll explain the entire process.

How to Grow and Care for Lovely Larkspur Flowers

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Nothing cheers the heart like a tall row of violet, pink, or blue-hued larkspur. Even better, these annuals reseed easily, coming back year after year to provide color to your summer garden. Why not try growing them in your flower bed, garden, or yard? Learn how to grow and care for larkspur in this guide. Read more now.

How to Grow Jacob’s Ladder: Regal Shade-Blooming Perennial

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Are you looking for a flower that thrives in cool, moist shade? We have the perfect plant for you: Jacob’s ladder. With its beautiful blue petals and yellow stamens, this European species readily naturalizes in the US. Learn all about this hardy perennial now from your friends at Gardener’s Path.

How to Grow and Care for Grape Hyacinth

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Grape hyacinths are beloved for their easy, bright splash of purple in the early spring garden. These reliable bulbs are delightful in showy shades of blue, pink, and white as well. And they multiply freely too, with more pretty blooms every year. Get all the details you need on how to plant grape hyacinth right here.

How to Grow and Care for Aster Flowers

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Starry aster flowers are native to North America, Europe, and Asia. Plants are available in an array of blues, pinks, purples, and whites. Mass plantings invigorate the late summer to fall landscape with carpets of robust color and texture. Read on and learn how easy asters are to grow and discover your favorites now.

How to Lift, Cure, and Store Tulip Bulbs

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Tulip bulbs face adversity in the landscape where foraging rodents, freezing and thawing cycles, and oversaturation may spell disaster. Rather than risk losing your favorite species and hybrids, you can lift, cure, and store tulip bulbs post-bloom. Read on for all you need to know and enjoy years of springtime flowers.

Cozy Up with Chamomile: Growing and Harvesting a Classic

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Of all the plants in my garden, chamomile offers the most return on my investment. It is a vigorous and problem-free plant that produces a spray of beautiful flowers that can immediately be harvested to make a tasty tea. Gardener’s Path has all of the information you need to know about growing this fine addition in your own garden. Read on to learn more!

How to Grow and Care for Barrenwort

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Barrenworts are drought resistant, tolerant of heavy shade, and they can handle a variety of pests and diseases that easily wreck more vulnerable plants. With striking flowers and gorgeous foliage, Epimedium is well worth planting. Our guide provides all the info you need to grow this ornamental ground cover.

How to Plant and Grow Toothwort (Pepper Root)

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Toothwort thrives in shade and provides colorful ground cover where other plants can’t survive. The flowers serve as the perfect way to bring the woodlands into your garden and you can eat the herb from root to tip. It tastes a lot like horseradish, which is why this plant is often called pepper root. Read more now.

How to Grow and Care for Bleeding Heart Flowers

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Bleeding hearts maintain and enjoy their status as a unique and easy to care for perennial beloved by gardeners. With soothing green foliage and iconic heart-shaped flowers, it’s easy to see why this shade-loving plant is a mainstay in many gardens. Discover how to grow and care for your own bleeding hearts now.

How to Propagate Indigo Plants from Seed

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Good things come in small packages, and the seeds of an indigo plant are proof. Within each one lies the potential to cultivate a vibrantly lush, gorgeous landscape shrub that can also yield beautiful blue dye! In our guide to propagating indigo from seed, the ins and outs of the entire process are covered in depth.

How to Grow and Care for Common Foxglove

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Common foxglove features tubular blossoms in shades of cream, pink, purple, red, yellow, and white on tall upright stalks that are attractive to bees and hummingbirds. It’s a biennial for USDA Hardiness Zones 4 to 9, and grows as an annual in all temperate zones. Learn how to grow and care for foxglove in your garden.

5 Reasons Why Your Daffodils Aren’t Blooming

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If you’re anticipating a springtime bounty of daffodils, there’s nothing worse than watching your plants fail to bloom. Or maybe the leaves never poked out of the ground at all. In this guide, find out the 5 most common reasons for this sad occurrence and learn how to prevent it from happening again. Read more.

19 of the Best Flowering Companions for Cosmos

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Pink, purple, white, orange, red, and yellow cosmos have feathery foliage and slender stems that sway gently in summer breezes. They bring color, a dreamy quality, and movement to gardens from summer to frost. Read on for 19 companion plants that share cosmos’ preference for moist, well-draining soil and full sunshine.

Promoting Pollination by Design: How to Attract Pollinators

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Do you want to garden with a purpose, one that goes beyond ornamental enjoyment? When you choose your next plant, make it a nectar-rich flowering variety that’s endemic to the US. Read on to discover a host of choices, and start attracting pollinators like bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects to your yard.

How to Propagate Petunias from Seed

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They’re colorful, flower for a long time, and are a cinch to grow. As if there wasn’t enough to love about petunias already, they’re also fun to grow from seed as long as you know how to keep them happy. Learn how to propagate petunias from seed now, from picking the right pots to providing the right light exposure.

When and How to Fertilize Bird of Paradise

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Without the proper fertilization, a bird of paradise plant won’t reach its full aesthetic potential. But a gardener who gives their plant the food that it needs will have one handsome specimen on their hands. In our guide, we’ll cover reasons for fertilizing, what you’ll need, and how to get it done. Read more now.

How to Grow and Care for Dianthus Flowers

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Carnations, sweet williams, and pinks are long-lasting in the garden and cut arrangements. With a spicy fragrance, Dianthus flowers sport attractive shades of pink, red, white, and purple that bloom all summer long. A stand-out in borders, rockeries, and window boxes, get all the growing details now on Gardener’s Path.

How to Grow Calla Lilies in Containers

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The ability to grow calla lilies in containers offers many different placement possibilities, both in the home and out in the landscape. In our guide to growing species of Zantedeschia in containers we’ll cover the ins and outs of the entire process, from initial selection to cultivation techniques. Read more now.

How to Grow and Care for Columbine Flowers

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You’ll know it’s spring when the columbine blooms. Known as “granny’s bonnet,” these dainty ladies appear early in the season, signaling the end of winter, and inviting the bees and birds to awaken. Learn about native and nonnative varieties of this delicate perennial right here on Gardener’s Path.

How to Grow and Care for Indigo Plants

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A key player in the history of blue-dyed cloth, indigo plants have also left their mark in horticulture as gorgeous spreading shrubs for the landscape. They are tough, versatile, and don’t suffer much from pests and diseases. In this growing guide, you’ll learn everything you need to know about growing indigo.

How to Grow Lady’s Mantle

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Of the many leafy perennial options for your garden, lady’s mantle is probably the hardiest you’ll find. Offering a brief but stunning display of flowers, its vigorous, abundant scalloped leaves are the main feature. Lady’s mantle is also extremely resistant to pests and disease. What’s not to love? Read more now.

How to Grow and Care for Crocosmia Flowers (Coppertips)

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Crocosmia bulbs are ideal for the late summer garden, with graceful wands of tropical flowers in hot, fiery colors that rise atop handsome spears of spiky foliage. Easily grown robust plants, they quickly multiply into dense clumps. Read more now to learn all you need to know to cultivate crocosmia flowers.

How to Grow Hummingbird Plants (Firecracker Plants)

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In addition to drawing the attention of stunning hummingbirds and other pollinators with its gorgeous flowers, a hummingbird plant rocks beautiful foliage while packing a tolerance for heat, humidity, and drought. In this guide, you’ll learn how to propagate, grow, and maintain a handsome clump of Dicliptera squarrosa.

All About Orchid Roots and How to Deal With Them

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What are those roots sprouting from the bark in your orchid’s pot? Are they bad or good? Should you trim them off right away or leave them alone? Should you repot? Gardener’s Path helps you understand the different types of orchid roots and how to deal with each of them. Read more now in our comprehensive guide.