Learn to Garden: Flower Gardening

Learn How to Grow a Flower Garden

Flower Gardener's Handbook

Learn how to grow your favorite flowers!

Plan your own flower garden, get suggestions for easy-to-grow flowers, and soon you’ll have beautiful flowers everywhere! We’ve organized this series to be a step-by-step series in the order of how to flower garden to give you all the information you need to succeed.

Once you’re ready to plant, see our FLOWER GROWING GUIDE LIBRARY! You’ll see over 100 individual growing guides to the most popular plants!

 

Getting Started with Flower Gardening

A Guide to Planting Annuals, Perennials, and Bulbs

Flower Garden Design and Care Tips

How flowers are good for our health and happiness

The 7 Steps of Starting a Flower Garden

Building a Raised Flower Bed Garden

How to make a DIY raised flower bed with wood

Four design ideas for your new raised flower bed

Choosing Flowers

easy perennial flowers for beginners. Pink peonies, purple phlox, purple asters, black-eyed susans, yellow spurge, hosta, pink foxglove

Low-Maintenance Plants That Return Year After Year

What's the point of annual flowers? An annual debate!

multi-colored perennial flowers near a white fence

Long-Blooming Perennials for Constant Color in Your Garden

Best annuals and perennials to start from seed

Choose Plants That Reseed Themselves for Years of Blooms

Types of Flower Gardens

A Flower Garden Design for Spring, Summer, and Fall Color

Make Your Own Perennial Flower Garden

Create a Romantic Garden | 12 Plant Ideas

What flowers to grow for cutting?

White Flowers That Shine in the Moonlight

Growing Flowers in Containers

Choosing the Best Perennials and Annuals for Containers

Spring and Fall Bulbs

"Bulbs to Plant in Fall" infographic

From tulips to daffodils, discover the best bulbs to plant this fall—plus expert tips to ensure a colorful start to spring.

Spring-planted bulbs that flower in summer and fall

Caring for Flowers

Perennials: Low-Maintenance Plants That Keep Coming Back

Men's hands cutting plants in their personal garden in autumn to prepare for the winter season

Fall Garden Care: Which Perennials to Cut Back—and Which to Leave Standing

Dividing Perennials Made Easy: Best Time, Steps, and Plant Guide

Harvesting Flowers

Select the right cutting flowers that last!

Ever found a flower so pretty you wished you could freeze the moment? Pressing flowers is the next best thing.

Discover the top flowers and foliage for drying, plus expert tips for preserving their color, scent, and shape for stunning year-round arrangements.

Collect, dry, and store seeds from your favorite blooms—like zinnias, sunflowers, and cosmos—to replant next season.

Flower Gardening for Pollinators

Plants that support pollinators and tips for a pollinator-friendly garden

Flower Gardener's Handbook