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

Keep cuttings upright with recycled containers

great ideas from smart gardeners

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From the WILD SIDE

How well do you know the birds in your backyard?

How well did you do?

Multiseason makeover

SPRING CHECKLIST

SUMMER CHECKLIST

FALL & WINTER CHECKLIST

Flowering annual vines

The Right Rose • These five roses grow in unique situations

Turn up the Temperature • Ignite your garden with hot-color combinations.

Find Your Path • Give yourself a gorgeous way to experience the garden.

3 ways to make a path a journey

Plants along the path

A drought-tolerant walkway that shimmers & shines

Welcome Friends to the Garden • Entertaining is so easy with a cozy garden packed with style

White garden wonders

DID YOU KNOW?

Secrets to a long-lasting hose

Q&A

Garden Jargon • Ever seen a horticultural term and wondered what it meant? We can help!

WEED WATCH

Pretty in pinks

Try this pink charmer • Veronica hybrid

GREAT GIFTS FOR GARDENERS

How to Start a Perennial Garden (and keep it healthy!)

BUILD a better bed in 9 simple steps • Try this weekend-easy bed-building technique for big, healthy plants in a hurry!

Test your texture

When the sod has to go…

Smart mulch choices • Wondering which mulch might be best for your garden? It depends — let this at-a-glance guide help.

Perennial problem solvers • Get your garden back on track with these simple solutions to common perennial challenges.

DAMAGING INSECTS • Check your garden weekly for these troublesome pests!

Conquer weeds • These strategies will help you fight — and win — the battle against weeds.

5 annual or biennal weeds • All of these weeds can be found across most of the United States and into southern Canada. Annuals grow, flower, set seed and die all in one year. Biennials make a small growth one year, survive the winter, then bloom and die the second growing season.

5 perennial weeds • These tenacious pests can be tough to eradicate. Not only can they grow from seed, some of them have stems and roots that allow the plant to multiply and spread. All can be controlled by herbicides, but there are other options you can try, as well.