Whether you’re planting your first bulbs or deadheading a mature border, our growing guides walk you through exactly how to plant, feed, prune, and care for popular garden flowers. Each guide covers the essentials — sun, soil, water, and season-by-season care — so your blooms thrive. Pick a flower below to get started.
Roses
Pruning, deadheading, feeding & year-round rose care
Hydrangeas
Care, changing bloom color & bigger blooms
Peonies
How to grow & care for lush, long-lived peonies
Tulips
When to plant bulbs, care & growing in pots
Dahlias
Planting, care & lifting tubers for next year
Sunflowers
How to grow tall, happy sunflowers from seed
Marigolds
Easy, cheerful marigolds from seed to bloom
Looking for meaning and symbolism instead? Explore our flower meanings A–Z, the flower encyclopedia, and birth flowers by month.