Teresa Woodard

Indoor blooming plants add a welcome touch of color to your home. Our favorites include African violets, moth orchids, anthurium, crown of thorns, and zebra plants.

Don’t let orchids’ stunning beauty intimidate you. Many of these exotic plants are well adapted to our indoor growing conditions and will even rebloom with the right care. Here's how to care for orchids, including tips on watering, sunlight, fertilizing and more.

Grow everlasting flowers like strawflowers, oats, celosia and marigolds to harvest for DIY bouquets and wreaths, with these recommendations from Gretel and Steve Adams of Sunny Meadows Flower Farm in Ohio.

The founder of Aquascape (aka The Pond Guy) built a small backyard pond for his mom—an oasis that has since expanded to include a stream, waterfalls, fish, wetlands bog, water lilies and more.

At her cottage in Wisconsin, Erin Schanen—known to her social media followers as the Impatient Gardener—treats each growing season as a chance to experiment.

A sustainability expert suggests perennials, shrubs and trees that are hard to kill—including salvia, coneflower, geraniums, goldenrod and catmint—plus tips for how to garden through climate change.

If you’re growing plants, you’re already on your way to helping the planet be a greener place. Here's how to make an even greater impact.

From a Midwest horticulture pro: 10 favorite annual plants with long-lasting color, including salvia, lantana, cleome, coleus and portulaca.

Get expert tips on how to plant sunflowers, when to expect blooms, how to harvest sunflower seeds and more.

Learn about the 10 top sunflowers for home gardens, including mammoths, heirlooms, single-stem and branching varieties.