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Garden Plants 🌳

60 detailed profiles covering origin, appearance, light, watering, propagation and problems for every garden plant.

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Rose (Rosa)

The Rose is the most beloved garden plant in the world — the flower of romance, …
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Hydrangea

The Hydrangea is the big, billowing, generous flowering shrub that anchors so ma…
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Lavender

Lavender is the silver-leaved, purple-spiked shrub that turns a garden into a sc…
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Lilac

The lilac is the shrub that announces spring with scent.
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Rhododendron & Azalea

Rhododendrons and azaleas are the great spring showstoppers of the acid-soil gar…
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Camellia

The camellia is the aristocrat of the shade garden — a glossy, evergreen shrub t…
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Butterfly Bush (Buddleja)

The butterfly bush earns its name in the most literal way — in summer, its long …
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Forsythia

Forsythia is the shrub that sets the early spring garden alight.
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Hibiscus (Hardy & Shrub)

Hibiscus brings a touch of the tropics to temperate gardens.
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Spirea

Spirea (also spelled spiraea) is one of the most dependable, easy-going flowerin…
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Peony

The peony is one of the most beloved and longest-lived plants in the garden — a …
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Hosta

The hosta is the undisputed king of the shade garden — grown not for flowers but…
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Daylily (Hemerocallis)

The daylily is the workhorse of the summer border — a perennial so tough, so ada…
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Coneflower (Echinacea)

The coneflower is one of the great pillars of the modern naturalistic garden — a…
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Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia)

Black-eyed Susan is pure garden sunshine — masses of golden-yellow daisy flowers…
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Salvia

Salvia is one of the most useful and rewarding groups of plants in the whole gar…
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Catmint (Nepeta)

Catmint is a soft, romantic, hard-working perennial that earns its place in almo…
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Phlox

Phlox is a quintessential perennial of the cottage and summer border — generous,…
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Astilbe

Astilbe is the answer to one of gardening's most common problems: how to bring c…
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Coral Bells (Heuchera)

Coral bells, *Heuchera*, is one of the most versatile foliage perennials in the …
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Sedum / Stonecrop

Sedum, also called stonecrop, is the ultimate easy plant — a hardy succulent per…
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Bearded Iris

The bearded iris is one of the most striking and architectural flowers in the ga…
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Hardy Geranium / Cranesbill

The hardy geranium — properly called cranesbill — is one of the most genuinely u…
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Delphinium

The delphinium is the grand statement of the classic English-style summer border…
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Foxglove (Digitalis)

The foxglove is the elegant spire of the woodland-edge garden — tall, graceful s…
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Tulip

The tulip is the bold, brilliant heart of the spring garden — the bulb that, mor…
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Daffodil (Narcissus)

The daffodil is the most cheerful and dependable harbinger of spring there is — …
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Allium (Ornamental)

Ornamental alliums are among the most striking and architectural plants in the g…
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Dahlia

The dahlia is the dazzling star of the late-summer and autumn garden — a plant o…
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Gladiolus

The gladiolus is the great vertical flourish of the summer garden — tall, dramat…
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Crocus

The crocus is the brave little flower that opens first — pushing up through cold…
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Hyacinth

The hyacinth is, above all, a fragrance — one of the most intense, far-reaching …
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Lily (Asiatic & Oriental)

The lily is one of the grandest flowers a bulb can give — tall, elegant stems ca…
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Petunia

The petunia is the workhorse of the summer container — the plant that, more than…
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Marigold

The marigold is the bright, cheerful, hardworking annual that almost every garde…
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Geranium (Pelargonium)

This is the plant almost everyone calls a "geranium" — the bright, dependable, s…
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Begonia (Outdoor)

The begonia is one of the most useful summer plants for a tricky situation: it b…
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Impatiens (Busy Lizzie)

Impatiens — long known affectionately as "busy Lizzie" — is the great shade-bedd…
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Sunflower

The sunflower is pure summer joy — the tall, golden, beaming giant that turns it…
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Zinnia

The zinnia is the dazzling, no-fuss star of the hot summer garden — an annual th…
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Pansy & Viola

Pansies and violas are the cheerful little faces that keep a garden colorful whe…
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Cosmos

Cosmos is the airy, effortless, romantic annual that gardeners reach for when th…
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Snapdragon (Antirrhinum)

The snapdragon is one of the most charming and playful flowers in the garden — a…
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Clematis

Clematis is, by common consent, the queen of the garden climbers — a vast and va…
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Climbing & Rambling Roses

Climbing and rambling roses take the most beloved flower in the world and send i…
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Wisteria

Wisteria is one of the most magnificent — and most demanding — plants a gardener…
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Honeysuckle (Lonicera)

Honeysuckle is the climber of the warm summer evening — a cottage-garden classic…
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Jasmine

Jasmine is, above all else, fragrance — the name itself has become a byword for …
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Ivy (Hedera, Outdoor)

Ivy is the great problem-solver of the garden — the tough, evergreen, self-cling…
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Boxwood (Buxus)

Boxwood — simply "box" to many gardeners — is the great structural evergreen of …
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Climbing Hydrangea

The climbing hydrangea is the answer to one of the trickiest questions in garden…
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Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum)

The Japanese maple is, for many gardeners, the most beautiful small tree it is p…
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Ornamental Grasses

Ornamental grasses are the plants that brought movement, light, and texture into…
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Yew (Taxus)

Yew is the great timeless evergreen of gardens — the deep, dark, almost black-gr…
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Privet (Ligustrum)

Privet is the familiar, hardworking hedging plant of countless gardens — the den…
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Tomato

The tomato is, for countless gardeners, the crop that started it all — the first…
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Strawberry

The strawberry is the easiest, sweetest, most rewarding fruit a beginner can gro…
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Culinary Herbs Bed

A culinary herbs bed is one of the most useful and rewarding things any gardener…
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Blueberry

The blueberry is one of the most desirable fruit bushes for the home garden — pr…
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Fruit Trees — Apple, Cherry & Plum (Home Orchard Intro)

A fruit tree is one of the most generous, long-lasting things a gardener can pla…

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