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How to Grow Flowers
Here’s everything you’ll need to successfully grow flowers indoors, outdoors in your yard or landscape, or in containers.
For the gardener in you.
In This Section
In the Flower Gardening section of this website, you’ll find complete information about the following subjects beneath the titles shown:
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- Flower Gardening
- Planting
- Care
- Annuals Plant Guide
- Bulbs Plant Guide
- Perennials Plant Guide
On This Page
On this page, you’ll find an overview of the Flower Gardening section and how to quickly find the information you are seeking, including these subjects beneath the titles shown:
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- Let’s Get Started!
- Flower Garden Planning, Planting, and Care Information
- Flowering Plant Selection Guides
- Navigating on GrownByYou.com
Let’s Get Started!
The Flower Gardening section of this website is divided into two parts.
In the first section you’ll find inspiration and detailed information on planning, planting, and caring for a flower garden in your home, yard, or landscape.
It is followed by a second section with three plant selection guides for 352 of the most commonly planted annual, biennial, bulb, and perennial flowers loved by many gardeners.
Flower Garden Planning, Planting, and Care Information
Part I. Flower-Garden Planning, Flower Planting, and Flower Care Information
Choose from these three topics to see examples of many different flower gardens, container gardens, and indoor plant decor, learn how to plan and plant a flower garden with easy-to-follow, expert demonstrations, and find information on caring for your flowers.
Flowering Plant Selection Guides
Part II. Flowering Plant Selection Guides.
Three convenient, comprehensive, and easy-to-use plant selection guides show plants and tell you everything you’ll want to know about growing them.
There are separate guides for 74 annual flowers, 183 perennial flowers, and 95 bulbs.
Each plant’s listing has a detailed description of each species, its bloom season, hardiness, soil, growing conditions, planting instructions, and care needs, plus unique features.
Choose a guide for the category of flowers you wish to grow—annuals, perennials, or bulbs—by selecting them below.
Navigating on GrownByYou.com
Whether you’re new to flower gardening or have had a green thumb for many years, click on our helpful Related-Topic links—near the bottom of most pages—to quickly see associated content on the same subject. You’ll find these quick links are a time-saving shortcut to looking through menus or entering terms in a searchbox.