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

Create Repetition in the Garden With Reseeding Plants

Here are a few of a British Columbia gardener's favorite reseeding plants that spread quickly and make a big impact in the garden once established.

Garden Tours

Shady Sloped Garden with Impressive Stonework

Step inside a lush Vancouver garden and learn how a steep backyard slope was reshaped into beautiful terraces with boulders unearthed on the property.

The Giving Garden | 2025’s Reader Garden Award Winners

Rooted in heartfelt connections, this dedicated Minnesota couple has grown an award-winning garden that reflects their creativity and love of gardening.

Garden Travel 2025: Exploring Seville’s Architecture and Gardens

This tour retrospective begins with highlights from the colorful gardens, palaces and streets of Seville, Spain.

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-Style Garden Filled with Vibrant Blooms

Take a fall tour with Lisa Graff of Lux Perennials Nursery through her Oregon garden, inspired by English design and filled with colorful 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!

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Design Tips & Inspiration

Create Repetition in the Garden With Reseeding Plants

Here are a few of a British Columbia gardener's favorite reseeding plants that spread quickly and make a big impact in the garden once established.

Pro Tips for Better Raised Garden Beds

Garden designer and author Resh Gala shares her secrets for creating beautiful and bountiful raised garden beds bursting with vegetables and blooms.

Timeless European Garden Design: 5 Techniques to Try

Get inspired by European garden design ideas we’ve admired on our travels, with five takeaways to bring timeless elegance to your own landscape.

Clever Pumpkin Tips for Fall From Our Readers

Check out 3 smart tips that will help prolong the life of your pumpkins and put them to use in your garden and fall decor.

Black Flowers & Plants for a Stunning Gothic Garden

Bring bold contrast to your gothic garden with black plants and flowers that add drama and timeless elegance in sun and shade.

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!

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!