Even if you’ve got a beautifully designed garden, there are plenty of reasons to add plants in containers to your home. You ...

Container gardening makes growing your favorite plants easier, allowing you to move them around and manage their size. Begin ...

Container gardens offer instant gratification to those who want to enjoy flowers and plants all summer long. Fill a pot with soil, pick your plants and voila! The payoff comes in having a beautiful ...

Melinda Myers, a horticulturist and gardening expert, describes this ornamental grass as a compact version of the native ...

Hosta with purple flower spikes growing in a concrete container - Artem Stepanov/Getty Images Hostas (Hosta spp.), with 22 species and more than 2,000 cultivars, are popular with gardeners who need a ...

How pots filled with annuals, grasses, herbs and more can transform any outdoor space King Louis XIV famously grew orange trees in the wooden boxes known as Versailles planters, but you don’t have to ...

Garden centers offer lots of ready-made flower pots and hanging baskets this time of year for those who want to grab and go, but it’s fairly easy and usually less expensive to put together your own.

Most of us crave color in the landscape. Colorful flowers and foliage enliven a landscape and bring interest and beauty. We typically plant colorful flowerbeds to provide splashes of color. While ...