What Is a Permaculture Garden? Plus 12 Tips for Planting Your Own
With these 12 tips on how to grow a permaculture garden, you can streamline garden chores, improve the soil, and grow healthier plants.
25 Garden Decor Ideas for Taking Your Yard from Drab to Fab
Enhance your outdoor oasis with these garden decor ideas for various styles, budgets, and landscape sizes.
13 Colorful Nectar Plants for Pollinators
Create a gorgeous, pollinator-friendly garden by including these nectar-rich plants.
How to Grow and Care for Living Stones
Find out how to grow living stones, unique miniature succulents that look like pebbles. This guide covers how to care for living stone plants, including watering them just right to keep them thriving.
17 Edible Flowers for Adding Stunning Color and Flavor to Your Plate
This guide to edible flowers describes the unique flavors of each type and provides tips for using the blooms to enhance cakes, cocktails, salads, and more.
How to Grow a Chia Plant
More than a gag gift or health food trend, chia is worth adding to your garden. This guide covers how to grow a chia plant outdoors.
How to Plant and Grow Sky Vine
Find tips for growing sky vine, a tropical vine with lavender-blue flowers that is grown as an annual in cool climates.
How to Plant and Grow Winter Daphne
A delightfully fragrant winter-flowering shrub, winter daphne adds evergreen interest to garden beds and borders.
This Full-Sun Garden Plan Brings Color to Your Whole Yard
There's no such thing as too much light for the easy-care plants in this design. The brighter, the better for these perennials to fill your yard with color.
29 of the Best Plants for Trough Gardens
Raised troughs are a great way to grow small drought-tolerant perennials, succulents, and alpine plants. Here are some of the best.
15 Container Garden Plants That Breeze Through Summer's Heat
For container gardens that will look gorgeous even through the dog days of summer, try these plants that can take the heat.
19 Colorful Window Box Ideas to Brighten Up Your Exterior
Use these window box ideas for a no-fail way to dress up your home. We share the right plant combinations to create maximum curb appeal.
Make This Super-Easy DIY Compost Bin in a Flash
Making a DIY compost bin will benefit your garden and help out the environment. Follow our super-easy directions.
What Is a Bee Lawn? Plus How to Plant One
Bee lawns are gaining popularity as a grass alternative that is lower-maintenance, drought-tolerant, and pollinator-friendly. Find out how to plant and care for a bee lawn of your own.
9 Common Garden Myths That Could Ruin Your Garden
Find out the truth behind common garden myths with these research-based facts from experts.
Gardeners’ World Host Monty Don Says Gardens Can Be the Key to Happiness
Celebrity gardener Monty Don talks with BHG Editor-in-Chief Stephen Orr about finding joy in a changing world through gardening.
Make Your Yard a Relaxing Oasis by Adding an Outdoor Wellness Space
Who among us isn't interested in being more relaxed? Creating outdoor spaces that promote wellness and relaxation is a trend we love, and these experts agree.
Your Seasonal Lawn-Care Schedule for the Midwest
Use our lawn-care schedule to help you maintain a beautiful yard all year long. You'll learn exactly when to mow, aerate, fertilize, and overseed.
Is Electroculture Gardening the Next Great Thing in Plant Care?
Electroculture gardening harnesses atmospheric energy to naturally and organically promote plant growth. Learn what electroculture gardening is, plus how you could try it at home.
Your Seasonal Lawn-Care Schedule for the Northeast
Take the guesswork out of yard work. This lawn-care calendar lets you know when to mow, aerate, fertilize, and seed your yard in the Northeast.