Colored-Glass Garden Votives

Use a butane grill lighter or long wooden match to light the candle. Pint-sized canning jars, glazed with paint to match a gardens decorating scheme, provide pretty, low-cost candle lanterns. These blue-hue jars

DIY Pond Box

Miniature Pond Lack room for a spacious in-ground water feature? Dont despair. You can still enjoy your own aquatic haven by crafting this nifty pond in a box that fits on a small balcony, deck, or patio. And its

Learn Design Tricks and Add Plants for Rock Gardens

Landscapes that incorporate plants with rocks and stones take extra thought -- and muscle -- to create. At their best, rock gardens offer a nurturing microclimate for plants among artfully placed stones. They can

Orange in the Garden

Cheerful and Bold Bring out the best in both bold and pale oranges by blending them with their color wheel complement: blue. When you contrast fiery orange flowers with blue and yellow ones, the border sizzles.

Make a Gorgeous Pussy Willow Wreath

Among the first hopeful signs of spring are the sweet fuzzy buds of common varieties of pussy willow. While snipping pussy willows and bringing them indoors is a treat, why not go a step further and turn the bra

10 Tips for Companion Planting

1. Grow hares with tortoises. Fast-growing plants are ideal companion plantings with slow-growing plants. For example, plant cool-season veggies with longer-season, heat-loving vegetables to get the most benefi

Adorable DIY Miniature Evergreen Garden

Finished Product: continue reading below Materials: Miniature conifers in varying forms: shown here are Picea glauca Jeans Dilly and Chamaecyparis pisifera Tsukumo Small perennial (we used a chartreuse

Mosaic Birdhouses

Getting Started Make your own mosaic mansions. These colorful, flower-inspired mosaic birdhouses are attractive in all meanings of the word. The rainbow of hues attracts the eye and proves that flowers need not

Attracting Songbirds to Your Garden

Part of the beauty of any landscape is its ability to feed and shelter wildlife -- and that includes attracting songbirds to the garden. Implement just one of these tips, or a few or all of them as time allows, to maxi

Build a Leopold Bench and Table

Build this fresh, serene version of the famous Aldo Leopold bench and matching table. This project requires basic woodworking skills, a few tools, and a helper to complete the assembly. All pieces of the project

What is the Best Way to Dry Flowers to Maintain Their Color?

Drying flowers is a good way to preserve the beauty of your garden long after the gardening season has ended. Although no flower will retain its full, bright garden color after its dried, some plants hold their co

DIY Moss Garden

Finished Product: continue reading below Materials: Drill and ceramic-tile bit Ceramic dish Landscape fabric Pea gravel Well-draining potting mix Rocks and vascular plants Spoon, skewer Moss Tweezers or

DIY Outdoor Concrete Table

Cedars natural resistance to the elements, including moisture, helps it hold up to the weather outdoors. We left this table base unfinished, but you can stain the wood to make it even more durable. This homemade b

Add an Aged Look to Garden Ornaments

Adding a new concrete statue or plaque to your garden can be a little like wearing a new pair of sneakers. The brilliant whiteness calls too much attention to itself. What you really want in a garden accent is f

6 Ornamental Grasses the Birds Love

Switchgrass Botanical name: Panicum virgatum Requirements: Moist to dry soil and full sun. Bird benefits: seeds feed them; dense foliage provides winter cover. Gardener benefits: Vigorus plants are prized for t

Visiting the Test Garden

continue reading below Located next to the headquarters of Better Homes and Gardens parent company, Meredith Corporation, our Test Garden serves as a display garden, a testing ground for plants, and a

How to Create Beautiful Dried Flowers

continue reading below Dried flowers are the perfect accent to wreaths, forever bouquets, or other decorating projects -- and drying flowers youve grown is a great way to conserve the fruits of your la

Chartreuse in the Garden

continue reading below Chartreuse is the new black! It pairs well with almost every color, so you can think of it as a neutral. Incorporate mass groupings of plants with chartreuse leaves and blooms as

The Elements of Good Garden Design

continue reading below Soothing horizontal lines create a sense of stability. Think of the ocean and how its wide expanse meets the sky, creating an irrefutable sense of peacefulness and majesty. Verti

Make a Miniature Garden

Tabletop Gardens Tabletop gardens typically combine a shallow container with petite plants or dwarf varieties and, if you like, other pipsqueak features -- a miniature gazebo, pebbled path, and decorative doodad