Guide to Basic Gardening – Sunset Magazine

Harvesting Flowers at Full Belly Farm

Flowers & Plants

Deadheading Tips Every Lazy Gardener Needs to Know

How to do less work when pruning flowers and still get bountiful blooms.

July 3, 2025

July 1, 2025

Garden Table in Casa Vista Hermosa by Sow Home

Flowers & Plants

How to Design a Backyard That Feels 10 Degrees Cooler

Easy-to-tackle garden tips to turn up the style while turning down the heat.

July 10, 2025

July 11, 2025

Wooden Raised Beds with Veggies

Edible Gardening

It’s Not Too Late to Plant These Veggies in Your Summer Garden

Missed the spring planting window? You’re not out of the growing game.

June 26, 2025

June 24, 2025

Colorful Garden

Edible Gardening

How to Create a Summer Garden That Smells Amazing

Regional plant picks and design inspiration for building a fragrance-forward oasis.

June 19, 2025

June 19, 2025

The Latest From Sunset

Cactus and Native Grass

How to Save Your Dying Container Plants This Summer

Six Ways to revive, refresh, and replant your patio pots with climate-smart, high-style solutions.

July 17, 2025

July 16, 2025

Real House Tucson HK Associates

Decorating & Design

These Are the Winners of the 2025 Sunset Western Home & Design Awards

These are the best architects, designers, and makers defining the ultimate in Western living.

May 14, 2025

May 22, 2025

Trueform Waterwise Garden Drought Native Plants

Flowers & Plants

The Plants You Want in Your Garden During a Heatwave

This season add sun-loving, drought-tolerant plants that actually can take the heat.

May 6, 2025

May 9, 2025

Bainbridge Grass Garden

Green Drenching Is the Trend Taking Over Gardens This Spring—Here’s How to Do It

Time to turn your backyard into a lush retreat.

April 25, 2025

April 25, 2025

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Pine House Edible Gardens Shed

10 Essential Tasks to Keep Your Garden Healthy This Summer

Everything you need to plant, harvest, and maintain in your garden as the weather heats up.

June 3, 2025

June 2, 2025

Outdoor Dining in Emma Flanders LA Garden

This L.A. Garden Has a Treehouse, a Tiny Farm, and Big Backyard Style

Proof that family-friendly design can be fun, functional, and still fabulous.

May 29, 2025

May 29, 2025

Hilary Kearney

How to Build a Successful Bee Garden, According to a Professional Beekeeper

A beekeeper shares her garden design tips.

May 29, 2025

June 10, 2025

Chaos Gardening Big Red Sun

Flowers & Plants

Why ‘Chaos Gardening’ Is the Wild Trend Taking Over Backyards Once Again

How to rethink untamed planting for a more resilient, beautiful backyard.

May 22, 2025

May 23, 2025

Starting a Raised Bed?

Raised Bed Solutions: Look at the Light

How to Replant a Raised Bed That Just Isn’t Working

Go from flopped to flourishing with these 7 simple ideas.

May 15, 2025

May 14, 2025

Pine House Edible Gardens

Edible Gardening

This $0 Hack Will Fix Your Raised Beds

Use scraps, salvage, and stuff you already have to upgrade your garden beds in time for spring.

March 11, 2025

March 14, 2025

Dark Raised Bed

5 Ways to Customize Your Raised Beds and Give Your Garden a Glow-Up

It’s time to think outside of the garden box!

July 18, 2023

September 22, 2023

Garden Water Feature with Raised Beds

Here’s Everything We Wish We’d Known Before Putting in a Raised Bed

We asked the experts for the most important things you should consider.

March 15, 2023

March 17, 2023

Large Beds

Edible Gardening

Help! When Do I Harvest the Veggies in My Raised Bed?

Clarke de Mornay, of Flora Grubb Gardens, clues us in on how and when to harvest a garden’s bounty—and what to do when you have too much of a good thing.

April 8, 2022

August 5, 2022

Epic Gardening's Kevin Espiritu

Edible Gardening

Every Raised Bed Gardening Question You Didn’t Even Know You Should Ask

Epic Gardening’s Kevin Espiritu walks us through the basics in prepping a raised bed this season.

March 16, 2022

March 23, 2022

Garden Gear

Watering Vegetable Garden with Hose

This Hose Is Guaranteed to Last for Life, and You Can Drink out of It (Which Is Why I Have Two)

It’s versatile for any task.

October 17, 2024

October 16, 2024

Blowing Leaves

It’s Time to Make the Switch to Electric Lawn Tools—Here’s How to Do It Right

It’s time to step off the gas and practice mindful maintenance in the garden.

January 18, 2024

March 29, 2024

Woman Garden Hat

A Garden Editor’s Guide to Great Skin

The editor-approved skincare products that will keep you looking good no matter where the outdoors takes you.

July 19, 2024

July 26, 2024

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Deadheading Tips Every Lazy Gardener Needs to Know

Deadheading Tips Every Lazy Gardener Needs to Know

It's Not Too Late to Plant These Veggies in Your Summer Garden

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This L.A. Garden Has a Treehouse, a Tiny Farm, and Big Backyard Style

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How to Build a Successful Bee Garden, According to a Professional Beekeeper

Why 'Chaos Gardening' Is the Wild Trend Taking Over Backyards Once Again

Why ‘Chaos Gardening’ Is the Wild Trend Taking Over Backyards Once Again

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How to Replant a Raised Bed That Just Isn’t Working

These Are the Winners of the 2025 Sunset Western Home & Design Awards

These Are the Winners of the 2025 Sunset Western Home & Design Awards

The Plants You Want in Your Garden During a Heatwave

The Plants You Want in Your Garden During a Heatwave

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Green Drenching Is the Trend Taking Over Gardens This Spring—Here’s How to Do It

The Number One Garden Task You Can't Skip This Spring (And How to Do It Right)

The Number One Garden Task You Can’t Skip This Spring (And How to Do It Right)

20 New Garden Books to Order This Spring

20 New Garden Books to Order This Spring

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