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!

Garden Tours

2025 Reader Garden Award Runner-Up: Becky Short

Find out why Becky's garden oasis was selected as one of our runners-up in the 2025 Reader Garden Award!

Garden Tours

2025 Reader Garden Award Runner-Up: Becky Short

Find out why Becky's garden oasis was selected as one of our runners-up in the 2025 Reader Garden Award!

English Garden Ideas Come to Life in This Colorful Perennial Landscape

Take a fall tour with Lisa Graff of Lux Perennials Nursery through her Oregon garden, inspired by English design and filled with vibrant late-season blooms.

Tour a Beautiful Low-Maintenance Garden with Clay Soil

Joyce Ludlow shares her experience designing a garden from scratch and making the most of her sloping yard with clay soil. Meet her favorite easy-care plants and why they’ve earned a spot in her garden!

2025 Reader Garden Award Runner-Up: Lonna Engel

This stunning shade garden earned a spot as a 2025 Reader Garden Award runner-up — take a closer look at the Painted Leaf Hosta Garden.

Simple Design + Unique Plants = Beautiful Front Yard Garden

Tour Susan Koelink’s front garden in British Columbia, where simple design and bold plants shine. Get inspired to boost your curb appeal with her creative ideas!

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.

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Design Tips & Inspiration

Curb Appeal Before & After: Multiseason Foundation Planting

Discover a stunning front garden transformation featuring interesting shrubs and perennials for head-turning curb appeal in a custom planter box. See the before and after, plus get a complete plant list!

2025 Garden Gate Reader Garden Award

Explore the impressive gardens of our 2025 Reader Garden Award runners-up and learn how to submit your own garden for a chance to win next year’s award!

Garden Essentials: Products to Help Embrace Outdoor Living

Check out these product picks from our editors to help you upgrade your outdoor living space this season!

How to Create a Sensory Garden

Design a garden that appeals to all five senses with fragrant plants, vibrant colors and unique textures.

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!

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.

How to Design Stunning Plant Combinations Like a Pro

This garden expert shares her design tips for combining plants to create interest all season — plus a few examples from her own garden, complete with plant lists!