With the weather warming up and spring blooms beginning to reveal themselves, now is the perfect time to scheme a garden—whatever size you’re working with. Read on for small garden design tips for the city dweller, based on advice from the pros and our favorite essential tools on the market.

You can never have too much space in your garden. Luckily, we've compiled a list of ideas that will help you maximize your grow area as much as possible.

One cannot miss noticing the dwarf poinciana (Caesalpinia pulcherrima) as it stands out and brightens the landscape with its showy reddish-orange and yellow flowers. It will often be seen in the landscape as an ornamental accent tree.

THERE’S NO BETTER time to create your own tiny, perfect world than when the real world feels like it’s out of control. Unsurprisingly, alpine troughs are having a moment. Designed to look like realistic, miniature landscapes, these container gardens ...

With a small front yard, there is much opportunity to let the front door act as the focal point. Here, a crown of 'New Dawn' roses adds charm to the entry while encouraging the eye to look up instead of just out—a surefire way to feign a bigger yard.

One of my fondest memories of my now-grown son's childhood involves his preschool fixation with the David the Gnome cartoon show. He never missed it. One day, on a whim, I fashioned tiny furniture from twigs and hid the pieces under some backyard bushes.

If you can make space for a miniature rock garden — one of tiny plants growing within the confines of a faux-stone trough — the promise of an outsize payoff awaits. Inside the walls of a trough, you can simulate the conditions required to grow choice ...

Here’s something very interesting on display at this year’s Farm Show. Students at Northern York High School are entering the miniature landscaping competition. Schools with FFA programs are allowed to enter this competition which has been going on for ...