Did you know that The Home Depot Garden Center merchants work with growers over a year in advance to determine what plants will be available in your local store? And while a quick glance around reveals a wide variety of live goods for the picking, there’s a lot that goes into determining what products are available in your aisles.

Planting flowers is the perfect way to bring color to your yard and add spring touches to the home. Finding the perfect plant, however, can seem like a daunting task to those who aren’t as experienced when it comes to gardening.

It feels like a timeless pairing – poinsettias and the holiday season – but this festive plant wasn’t always a holiday staple.

Whether your desire is to dine, entertain or lounge, patios are the perfect place to retreat and enjoy the more pleasant seasons. Outdoor areas, like patios, porches and roof decks, have evolved into a true extension of home living, both in function and design. To give us insight on outdoor living room trends and emerging patio styles, we talked to Sarah Fishburne, director of trend and…

Caitlin Ketcham is a Tucson-based graphic designer who is working on turning her semi-custom house into her dream home, project by project.

As the days turn warmer, the season of spring cleaning, home gardening and DIY projects for the warm months ahead is upon us. Though some of our customers decide on a new patio set or landscaping update when the first sunny day arrives, our associates begin preparing for our busiest home improvement season a full year ahead of time. Check out our timeline of what it took to prepare stores…

It’s almost spring and for The Home Depot, that means busy season is right around the corner.

This holiday season, retail stores across the country are gleaming with garland and lights, ready to supply shoppers with every gift and seasonal item on their wish list. But, how do stores prepare for Black Friday sales and the holiday shopping season? At Home Depot, our Black Friday and holiday store transition elves are known as the Merchandising Execution Team, or MET.

Martha Stewart is starting the holiday season right by hosting her first live-streamed Home Depot workshop, where she’ll showcase her favorite holiday DIY projects. In our excitement for the upcoming event, we sat down with Hannah Milman, Senior Vice President and Executive Editorial Editor of Crafts and Holiday for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, to hear about the latest trends in…

Icicle or rope? Colored or white? Indoor or outdoor? ‘Tis the season for holiday lights, and this year the first question you should ask is: incandescent or LED? While it’s easy to use the same string of lights year after year, new LED lighting technology comes with a lot of perks. Learn more about the benefits of LED holiday lights and how The Home Depot is making the switch easy for…