First things first: you'll want to choose a place (or places) where your plants will have access to plenty of water and sunlight. Good soil drainage is a must. "You don't want to make a flower bed or ...

Where hardscape doesn’t exist, use a lawn edger or shovel to cut into the grass or dirt along your spray paint line to create ...

Ground covers — low-growing plants that mat, sprawl, trail, or clump on the ground — play a valuable role in the landscape. They fill in gaps in flower beds, adding color, texture, and depth.

When you walk into a nursery or garden center this time of the year, it’s exhilarating — you look around at all of the flowers and feel that the possibilities are limitless. Visions of flowerbeds ...

As spring approaches, like me, most gardeners are already envisioning a beautiful landscape. For many, the flower bed is the one garden element that serves as the highlight of the landscape. Now is ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. Also known as pot ...

Nobody ever said gardening offers instant gratification. With this limitation in mind, I dug and made over one of my flower beds last weekend. For the plants, fall is a fine time for a flower-bed ...