Garden Design

Looking for ideas or solutions for tough spots in your yard? Let us show you how to design a beautiful and productive garden. Inspirational garden photos. Step-by-step garden design advice. It's all here!

Design Tips & Inspiration

How to Design a Garden to Attract Pollinators

Want to help support your local pollinators? Check out these great tips for designing a garden that attracts more pollinators.

Garden Tours

Tour A Garden Designer’s Yard Full of Drought-Tolerant Plants

Rebecca Sweet’s garden thrives during drought, thanks to resilient plants designed for California’s high heat and low water conditions.

Tour a Whimsical Southern Garden in Spring

Take a tour of this riverside garden to discover hidden seating areas, whimsical upcycled projects and plenty of spring blooms that are also deer resistant.

Fall Garden Tour: Step Inside an Ohio Couple’s DIY Garden

Discover lots of plant and DIY project tips and get plenty of inspiration from this Ohio couple who's been gardening for nearly 50 years.

Create Multiseason Beauty with Perennials & Flowering Trees

Explore this award-winning garden, featuring colorful perennials, flowering trees, a stunning dahlia patch and natural stone edging. Join us for an inspiring tour of the landscape!

Dog-Friendly Garden with Rustic Charm

Meander through the paths of Bonnie Duma's beautiful — and dog-friendly! — garden filled with upcycled treasures.

Urban Garden Retreat

Follow this gardener's journey to cultivate a neglected yard into a joyful (and award-winning!) urban garden retreat in Maryland.

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Design Tips & Inspiration

Garden Edging Techniques: Tips from the Pros

A well-defined garden bed is the key to a polished look and fewer weeds. Here’s how 4 garden designers recommend getting it right!

How to Create a Rain Garden

Rain gardens filter rainwater and beautify your yard, find out the basics of building one here!

Solve Garden Problems with Ground Cover Plants

Kathy Jentz shares her tips for using ground cover plants to solve common garden challenges including shady spots, slopes and even in clay soil.

Add These Gardening Books to Your Winter Reading List!

The off-season is perfect for exploring the best gardening books. These reads offer inspiration and ideas to enhance your garden year-round, from design tips to birdhouses.

Small Space Garden Design Ideas from the Pros

Learn how to make the most out of small garden spaces from 4 designers.

Best Budget Garden Tips from Our Readers

We asked our readers for their best budget tips for the garden, and they delivered!

Plant Combinations

One plant is nice. More is better! Learn which plants grow best together here. You'll find sun plants, shade plants, plants for spring, summer, fall and winter gardens, and plants that thrive in all sorts of different conditions in your garden.