A garden has multiple hanging baskets with plants trailing from them. - Francesca Leslie/Shutterstock If you have hanging baskets or a container garden, few things are more perfect than trailing ...

Whether you've filled out all your shelves or your just looking for more colorful plants, this trailing perennial can take your collection to new heights.

Don't be sad about summer ending—these container plants will brighten up your cool-weather days. Westend61/Getty Images The end of summer is the perfect time to refresh your porch or patio containers.

Even the most beautifully planned garden can benefit from a few well-placed container plants. Pots and planters add flexibility, personality, and instant impact—no digging required. Containers make it ...

Known for being very easy to grow, philodendrons have green or variegated heart-shaped leaves. They are tolerant of almost any type of light, including low-light areas, and humidity. Although stems ...

When I was in college, I had three pots with tiny plants growing on my windowsill. They were my connection with horticulture. Those long nights trying to figure out why a horticulture major was taking ...

I bought a plant called Mezoo Trailing Red in a 4-inch pot at the beginning of the summer. I used it as the trailing plant in a container design. Three months later the plant has trailed over the ...

The end of summer is the perfect time to refresh your porch or patio containers. Out with the leggy spring and summer plants and in with the blooms and foliage that enjoy the cooler fall temperatures.

I live in an apartment with an incredibly shady so-called backyard: a 10-by-15-foot expanse of dirty concrete tucked behind my driveway. I’ve always wanted a big garden, but, unless a demolition crew ...

There’s hot and then there’s hot, dry, exposed and windy. Not just any plant can survive, let alone thrive, in such harsh conditions — especially in a decorative container. Yet that’s exactly the ...

Even if you’ve got a beautifully designed garden, there are plenty of reasons to add plants in containers to your home. You can decorate a front porch or backyard patio with boxes or pots of flowers.