Midwest flower garden landscapes

Discover the best perennials for a low-maintenance backyard to create an easy-care garden oasis with year-round beauty. Perfect for busy gardeners!

Native plants are more hardy, less disease resistant, and better for nature. Here are 9 beautiful ones or the Midwest that you want in your yard.

Our editor talked about best books for new gardeners at the Minnesota State Fair Saturday. Here's a list of some of the basic books she recommends.

Midwest Landscaping Ideas to Elevate Your Yard Discover creative midwest landscaping ideas to transform your yard into a picturesque haven. Get inspired to enhance your outdoor space!

These good-looking perennials can weather whatever our Midwestern climate delivers. Best of all, they come back year after year with almost no attention on your part.

You've seen it trending and now you're wondering: What is a chaos garden? Find out all about this easy, low-maintenance gardening method right here!

Learn about layered landscaping; using a balanced combination of small, medium, and tall plants to create a stunning layered garden for all seasons.

A yellow peony, showy trillium, award-winning hosta and periwinkle-blue iris are some of a Michigan expert's plant picks—and they'll thrive in your Midwest garden, too.

How to grow wildflowers in pots, borders or a meadow. These expert tips will give you months of beautiful flowers. No more mistakes!

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If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years of gardening, it’s that sometimes, a little wildness goes a long way. This season, I embraced the idea of a

A meadow garden is literally what is it: a garden with plants that are native for the area. Here are ideas to design one.

If we want gardens to look less weedy then we need to stop pampering wild plants and give them what they want -- tough competition and limited resources.

Discover 10 inexpensive perennials that offer big beauty without big effort! These plants are perfect for those who love a lush, colorful backyard but don’t have time for constant maintenance. Enjoy the benefits of a vibrant garden with minimal upkeep!

This incredibly pretty planting includes plants of great winter interest that will lift your spirits during the dull days of winter. Low maintenance, deer resistant and fairly easy to replicate, this planting includes top performing plants which have been awarded prestigious awards. Enjoy a glorious and colorful spectacle from winter to even spring!

Cut flower gardens can have visually interesting layouts AND make beautiful floral arrangements. Fill your garden with shrubs, and suddenly, you have a yearslong cut and come again garden as well as a landscape to come home to. Get garden design ideas with our 96-page DIY landscape guide called Gardening Simplified!

What is Native Plant Landscaping? Native plant landscaping is using plants in your garden that originated locally in the wild from where you live. These plants can range from grasses to herbs to shrubs to trees.