Teresa Woodard

Craving a bit of paradise? Bring an island vibe to your Midwest yard and container gardens with these bold, colorful outdoor tropical plants.

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.

Author Lisa Eldred Steinkopf shares how to make blooms last longer—and repeat. Here are her top tips for easy-care indoor plants, including African violets, orchids and Thanksgiving and Christmas cacti.

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.