Garden Gate

You CAN create the garden of your dreams with Garden Gate magazine! Every issue is packed with must-have plants, reader tips, simple time- and money-saving ideas, step-by-step, how-to help and the inspiration you need to create a gorgeous garden year after year.

From the Editor

Quick TIP

great ideas from smart gardeners

We pay $ 25 for TIPS we publish!

PEST WATCH

Container shopping guide

American Hemerocallis Society

Discover daylilies

Daylily terms

Find your daylily

Relax on a peaceful patio

Hydrangeas for every season

Bigleaf hydrangeas at a glance

Panicle hydrangeas at a glance

Smooth hydrangeas at a glance

Mountain hydrangeas at a glance

4-season hydrangea border

Oakleaf hydrangeas at a glance

Lavender • How to grow beautiful plants with enticing fragrance.

Growing great lavender

Easy sugar scrub

Diseased? What to look for

Should You Sterilize Pruning Tools? • Let us help you decide.

Marvelous Moss • Discover the moundy talents of moss in gardens and containers.

Understanding mosses

Add moss to your garden

Tips for growing moss in containers

Casual Cottage Gardens • Relax and enjoy! This is one laid-back garden style.

Cottage garden players

A glamorous garden shed

WANTED: Garden Design Problems

How to grow this garden

Mosquito life cycle • Depending on the species, time of year and temperatures, the life cycle can be completed in as little as 4 days and as long as a month. Adult males live only 6 to 7 days. Females live about a month, though late-season-hatched adults can hibernate over winter.

Itching to get rid of mosquitoes? Here’s how!

Q&A

Garden Jargon

WEED WATCH • Johnsongrass Sorghum halepense

Delightfully drought-tolerant • Broad, flat blossoms of yarrow and round globe thistle set apart the dense-blooming agastache. These plants love well-drained soil, so the river rock mulch keeps them dry and happy.

Electric and easy-going

GARDEN ESSENTIALS

Container Design Secrets

great groups

bold with blues • Repetition is a vital element in successful container groups. Here are the keys to making it work.

THREE’S COMPANY

a formal affair • Want to give your yard an elegant look, without a lot of effort? Twin containers do the trick!

TALL AND TRIANGULAR

two spaces, one yard • Bright colors. Clean lines. And a tie-in to the rest of your yard. It’s easy to do with a simple container group.

COLORFUL STANDARD

condense your garden

cool idea

tropical twist

a bright fall

FINISHING TOUCHES