Southern Living Ultimate Garden Guide: 143 Ideas for Containers, Beds & Borders

Our best ideas for beautiful containers, beds and borders!

Your yard will become the envy of your neighbors with the help of Southern Living’s Ultimate Garden Guide, our Special Collector’s Edition filled with ideas, inspiration, and tips to help you grow the most beautiful containers, beds and borders. We select the best trees, shrubs, and flowers to bring year-round appeal to your yard (think “peak color”) and we provide a seasonal checklist to help you stay on track all year long.. This guide is as inspirational as it functional: We take you on several garden tours – from tropical to English Accent to provide you with ideas to enhance your yard, or try something new. Specific plant recommendations, including suggested cultivars, make it easy to get great results, and The Grumpy Gardener weighs in with answers to some of your most pressing gardening questions, and we provide you with some tips to help keep the sinister six (the critters that destroy all of your hard work) away from your garden. Filled with gorgeous full-color photography, step-by-step guidance, and dozens of pro tips and tricks, our Ultimate Garden Guide helps give everyone a green thumb!