Growing Flowers

Learn all about growing flowers. Grow beautiful annuals and perennials with expert insight from our flower gardening articles. We cover the basics plus advanced gardening tips and landscaping ideas to transform your yard into a backyard paradise. Learn to grow roses, irises, peonies, day lilies, native perennials, and flowers to attract butterflies and pollinators.

June Gardening Tips: Everything You Need to Do in Your Garden This Month

I’m sharing these June gardening tips for gardening zone 7B. However, you can easily adapt them to your gardening zone. June is one of those months that feels like there’s so much to do in the garden you don’t know where to start. Fortunately, nature gives you extra-long days and plenty of sunshine! Whether you…

Growing Ginger in the Home Garden

Growing ginger is fun. I was surprised to learn that I could grow ginger in Zone 7B, central Virginia. I attended a lecture by Ann Codrington of Nisani Farms several years ago. She discussed growing both ginger and turmeric. Her farm is in Maryland, but I discovered that both plants can be grown in both…

Companion Planting with Herbs: Your Secret Weapon for a Healthier, Happier Garden

Every summer, without fail, I plant basil at the end of the raised beds. These are the beds filled with Roma tomatoes, the ones we harvest by the bushel to make our salt-free organic tomato sauce. My tomatoes thrive. “Did you know that basil repels aphids?” an organic gardener friend mentioned to me casually one…

Growing vs. Wild Foraging Medicinal Herbs: My Perspective

Growing vs. wild foraging medicinal herbs is a real concern among newbie herbalists. The other day, I shared pictures of my herb seedlings (mallow, parsley, and savory) on Facebook. A nervous nellie immediately wrote, “I would be so AFRAID to do that! How can you know they are safe?” Well, first of all, parsley and…

Types of Hydrangeas

When My Garden Turns Into a Big, Beautiful Meadow Garden

Simple Container Designs: Petunias

The Ominous Genus Oenothera

Planting Butterfly Weed, Asclepias Tuberosa

Beautiful Container Garden Designs

Container Garden Tips

Iris Care

Plant Phlox for Butterflies

Do You Need to Protect Daffodils from the Snow?

The Absolute Easiest Way to Grow Flowers: Carpet Bedding

Avoid Planting Nandina

Butterfly Attracting Perennials

New Butterfly Garden Perennials

How to Plant Crapemyrtle

June Gardening Tips: Everything You Need to Do in Your Garden This Month

Growing Ginger in the Home Garden

Companion Planting with Herbs: Your Secret Weapon for a Healthier, Happier Garden

Growing vs. Wild Foraging Medicinal Herbs: My Perspective

Growing Flowers

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