These brilliant garden bed ideas will bring color, charm, and cheer to your property—and are simple enough to do yourself.

Prepare the bed for planting, then water and wait a couple of weeks to let the weed seeds sprout before planting wildflowers and bulbs. Otherwise you may end up with the weeds crowding out the latter.

Grass can crowd out your flowers, reducing their airflow and increasing their risk for disease. To remove grass from your ...

Flower beds typically contain three types of plants: perennials, which bloom each year for several years; annuals, which bloom, seed, and die all in a single season; and biennials, which bloom ...

The blooms in the wildflower bed last a shorter time and are sometimes triggered into abundance by unusual fits of warm weather. “The really hot weather we had in July was hard on the wildflowers.