Flowers
Looking for the best type of flower to grow in your garden? Consult our Flower Growing Guides, below, to learn how to grow all the most popular garden flowers, including sunflowers, roses, irises, peonies, daffodils, and many more!
In each Growing Guide, you’ll find advice on planting, growing, and caring for your flowers so that they’ll bloom their absolute best year after year! Plus, we provide variety recommendations and images to help inspire your own garden design.
If you have a question about the planting or care of a specific flower, feel free to ask it in the comment sections of the pages below!
Mum Care 101: Planting, Blooming, and Overwintering Tips
Easy-to-grow annuals that thrive in poor soil and bloom from summer to fall.
Sun-loving flowers that brighten gardens with dazzling colors and unique blooms.
Bring Color and Pollinators to Your Garden with Deer-Resistant Native Asters
Planting, Growing, and Caring for Sedums
Brighten Your Garden and Containers with Cheerful, Cold-Hardy Pansies
Learn how to plant, grow, and care for Queen Anne’s lace—an elegant wildflower that adds texture to bouquets and draws pollinators to your garden.
The Ultimate Hollyhock Guide: From Seed to Spectacular Spire
All About Amaranth: From Garden Beauty to Superfood Seeds
Discover how to grow and maintain vibrant trailing lobelia for containers, hanging baskets, and garden edges
Bright, easy-care blooms that thrive in poor soil and attract pollinators
Why Comfrey Is Such a Helpful Plant in the Garden
Planting, Growing, and Caring for Goldenrod Native Plants
Planting, Growing, and Caring for Snapdragons in Every Season
Bright, Bold, and Blissfully Easy: Bring Sunshine to Your Garden with Shasta Daisies!
Fragrant, colorful climbing flowers that bring cottage-garden charm, pollinators, and long-lasting blooms to trellises, borders, and bouquets.
Cold-hardy blooms for garden beds, borders, and containers
Including Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) and Other Monarch Host Plants
Meet Nigella—an easy, cool-season bloomer with lacy foliage, jewel-toned flowers, and unforgettable seed pods.
Attract Pollinators, Brighten Your Garden, and Enjoy Long-Lasting Blooms
Learn How to Grow and Care for Scaevola, The Stunning Fan Flower
From Bud to Bloom: How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Stunning Peonies in Your Garden
Discover the beauty of anemone flowers—from their history and varieties to planting tips and care
Discover how to plant, grow, and care for flowering maple—also called Chinese lantern or Indian mallow—for nonstop color and charm.
A Garden Showstopper With Rose-Like Blooms and Serious Vase Appeal
Planting, Growing, and Caring for Diascias
Enjoy Critter-Resistant, Early-Blooming, Shade-Loving Hellebores
Planting, Growing, and Caring for Gauras
Discover planting tips, ideal conditions, and why these sky-blue blooms are pollinator favorites.
Planting, Growing, and Caring for Delphinium
Big, Bold, and Beautiful: How to Grow and Care for Canna Lilies
A Complete Guide to Planting, Growing, and Caring for Impatiens in Shade Gardens and Containers
A soft, airy flower that’s perfect for gardens, borders, and bouquets.
Planting, Growing, and Caring for Fuchsia Plants
A bright, easy-care perennial that blooms for months and thrives in many gardens
Your guide to planting, growing, and caring for shade-loving perennials that brighten up any garden
Growing African Blue Lily Plants: Watering, Light, Propagation, and More!
Discover the Truth About Citronella Plants—Beautiful, Fragrant, and (Sort of) Bug-Repelling!
The Complete Flower Guide for Stunning Hanging Baskets and Groundcover
Discover the beauty, care tips, and history behind Joe-Pye weed (Eupatorium Purpureum)
Larkspurs Bring Height, Color, and Cottage Garden Charm!
Planting, Growing, and Caring for Million Bells
The Complete Verbena Guide: A Bloom-Boosting Favorite for Beds, Baskets, and Bees
Planting, Growing, and Caring for Lantana Flowers That Butterflies Love
Planting, Growing, and Caring for Russian Sage in Your Garden
An easy-to-grow flower that blooms from spring to fall, attracts pollinators, and repels pests
Planting, growing, dividing, harvesting, and choosing native and wild yarrow for a sustainable garden