Photo credits

These photographers took the stock photos you see on this site today, grouped by the site we found them on. Each name links to the photographer's profile, and each photo links to its original page.

Pexels

• Greta Hoffman
  • A woman in overalls hoeing up a strip of lawn beside a house, with sacks against the wall. Used on: Soil and Mulch Calculators for Raised Beds and Borders, New In-Ground Bed This Fall: Dig It In or Sheet Mulch, Garden Systems: One Page per Garden Job
• Skyler Ewing
  • Five new wooden bed frames seen from above, one empty and four holding logs, leaves, wood chips and a black fill. Used on: Mulch Calculator: Bags and Cubic Yards for Any Bed, Raised Bed Soil Calculator: Cubic Feet, Yards and Bags, Soil and Mulch Calculators for Raised Beds and Borders, Soil and mulch Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, Square Feet vs Cubic Feet: Turning a Bed Into Bags, Fill a Tall Raised Bed for Less: Layer Fill Plan

Pixabay

• bluebudgie
  • A wooden crate of tulip bulbs on a green lawn. Used on: Frost Dates by Zip Code (NOAA 1991-2020 Normals), Garlic and Bulb Planting Calculator: How Many, How Deep, USDA Zone and Frost Date Tools by Zip Code, Zones Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, When to Plant Tulip Bulbs in Zones 8 to 10: After the Fridge, Spring Bulbs, Zones 8 to 10: Chill, Then Plant
• congerdesign
  • Sprouting bulbs in a clump of soil on a red trowel, set on an old garden bench. Used on: USDA Zone and Frost Date Tools by Zip Code, Spring Bulbs, Zones 8 to 10: Chill, Then Plant, Garden Systems: One Page per Garden Job

Unsplash

• Alan Bowman
  • A narrow crushed-stone path held by a stone edge on one side and a curb with a metal railing on the other. Used on: A Gravel Path With No Pavers: Depth, Edging and Bags
• Alicia Christin Gerald
  • A hand scooping loose potting mix out of a container. Used on: Soil and Mulch Purchase Record: Buy by the Cubic Foot
• Annie Spratt
  • A wheelbarrow heaped with fallen leaves on a backyard lawn in fall. Used on: Compost and Topsoil Calculator: Bags and Cubic Yards, Soil and Mulch Calculators for Raised Beds and Borders, Soil and mulch Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, Bags or Bulk: When a Cubic Yard Delivery Is Cheaper, Bury, Group or Garage: Winter Plans for Potted Plants, Fall Compost Bin Reset: Empty, Spread, Rebuild With Leaves, Fall Leaves as Mulch: Shred, Spread and Count the Bags, Fill a Tall Raised Bed for Less: Wood Below, Soil on Top, A Gravel Path With No Pavers: Depth, Edging and Bags, Gravel by the Ton: How Many Cubic Yards Is That?, How Deep Should Mulch Be? Depths by Material, How Deep to Dig for a Paver Patio, Layer by Layer, How Many Tomato Plants in a 4x8 Raised Bed?, How Much Compost per Year for a Garden Bed, How Much Mulch Around a Tree: Ring Size and Bags, Quarts, Liters and Cubic Feet on a Soil Bag, Raised Bed Soil Sank? Why It Settles and How Much to Add, Square Feet vs Cubic Feet: Turning a Bed Into Bags, Topping Up Old Mulch: Measure, Rake, Then Buy, Turn Lawn Into a Garden Bed This Fall, No Digging, The Two Zones Colder Rule for Plants in Pots
  • White daffodils blooming at the foot of a sunny brick wall with a climbing shrub trained on it. Used on: Frost Dates by Zip Code (NOAA 1991-2020 Normals), USDA Hardiness Zone by Zip Code (2023 Map Data), USDA Zone and Frost Date Tools by Zip Code, Zones Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, Microclimates in One Yard: Find Warm and Cold Spots, Yard Microclimate Map: Find Your Warm and Cold Spots
  • Bulbs set out on dark, gritty soil before they are covered. Used on: When to Plant Tulip Bulbs in Zones 8 to 10: After the Fridge
• Ben Kupke
  • A worker kneeling to set pavers in a patio marked out with thin stakes, next to a flower border. Used on: How Deep to Dig for a Paver Patio, Layer by Layer
• Brad Weaver
  • A man pushing a wheelbarrow of gravel past a new house foundation. Used on: Gravel by the Ton: How Many Cubic Yards Is That?
• Chandler Cruttenden
  • A compact track loader on a fresh spread of crushed gray gravel by a house in the woods in fall. Used on: Gravel and Paver Base Calculator: Bags and Cubic Yards, Soil and Mulch Calculators for Raised Beds and Borders, Soil and mulch Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, Gravel by the Ton: How Many Cubic Yards Is That?, Paver Patio and Gravel Path Base: Dig, Order, Lay, Soil and Mulch Purchase Record: Buy by the Cubic Foot
• Chulho Choi
  • Clumps of bulb leaves coming up through pine straw mulch in late winter. Used on: Spring Bulbs, Zones 8 to 10: Chill, Then Plant
• Damir Samatkulov
  • Two large pots of clipped boxwood dusted with snow on a wooden deck. Used on: Container Soil Calculator: Potting Mix for Pots, USDA Hardiness Zone by Zip Code (2023 Map Data), Container Garden Calculators for Pots and Planters, Containers Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, Bury, Group or Garage: Winter Plans for Potted Plants, The Two Zones Colder Rule for Plants in Pots, Overwintering Plants in Pots: A Winter Plan for Each Pot
• Ehsan Mahpour
  • A tall wooden raised planter box filled with a fern in a shady garden. Used on: Soil and Mulch Calculators for Raised Beds and Borders, Border Mulch Refresh: Measure, Rake, Buy the Gap, Fall Leaves Into Mulch: Shred, Spread, Count the Bags, Fall Raised Bed Reset: Clear, Top Up, Cover for Winter, Fill a Tall Raised Bed for Less: Layer Fill Plan, Garden Systems: One Page per Garden Job, Garden Bed Math: How Much Soil and Mulch Your Bed Needs
• Elly M
  • Hands firming soil around a young transplant in a dark garden bed. Used on: Turn Lawn Into a Garden Bed This Fall, No Digging
  • Seedlings in small pots and a tray on a sunny windowsill. Used on: Know Your USDA Zone: Zone Card and Plant Tag Check
• Emma Renly
  • Hands digging with a trowel in the dark top layer of a wooden raised bed beside a young pepper plant. Used on: Fill a Tall Raised Bed for Less: Wood Below, Soil on Top
  • A raised bed of dark soil seen from above as a gardener sets in transplants, with a soil bag beside it. Used on: Square Feet vs Cubic Feet: Turning a Bed Into Bags
• feey
  • Tulip bulbs piled in a shallow wooden crate set in a garden bed, with a bulb planter beside it. Used on: Frost Dates by Zip Code (NOAA 1991-2020 Normals), Garlic and Bulb Planting Calculator: How Many, How Deep, USDA Zone and Frost Date Tools by Zip Code, Zones Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, Pre-Chilling Tulip Bulbs: Fridge Weeks for Zones 8 to 10, Spring Bulbs, Zones 8 to 10: Chill, Then Plant
  • A hand holding a single tulip bulb, pointed end up, over a bed of dark soil. Used on: Pre-Chilling Tulip Bulbs: Fridge Weeks for Zones 8 to 10
• FRAEM GmbH
  • A worker in green work clothes setting concrete pavers on a sand bed. Used on: Paver Patio and Gravel Path Base: Dig, Order, Lay
• Frank Thiemonge
  • Wooden slatted compost bins with wire mesh sides and a compost thermometer in the nearest pile. Used on: Fall Compost Bin Reset: Empty, Spread, Rebuild With Leaves
• Jason Gooljar
  • Black-eyed Susans and shrubs in a bed of dark shredded mulch beside a large stone. Used on: Border Mulch Refresh: Measure, Rake, Buy the Gap
• Jonathan Hanna
  • A long wooden raised bed planted with chard and greens beside a lawn, with more beds and a house behind. Used on: Raised Bed Planning Tools: Lumber, Size and Layout, First Raised Bed: Size, Build, Fill and First Planting, Garden Systems: One Page per Garden Job, Garden Bed Math: How Much Soil and Mulch Your Bed Needs
• Julia A. Keirns
  • The base of a multi-trunk crape myrtle in a front yard, with bark mulch inside a brick-red edge. Used on: How Much Mulch Around a Tree: Ring Size and Bags
• Julia Morales
  • Pink impatiens growing through a layer of dark shredded bark mulch. Used on: Topping Up Old Mulch: Measure, Rake, Then Buy
• Kat van der Linden
  • Two white plant tags marked hyssop pushed into a mulched bed beside newly planted perennials. Used on: USDA Hardiness Zone by Zip Code (2023 Map Data), USDA Zone and Frost Date Tools by Zip Code, Zones Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, How to Read a Plant Tag: Zones, Sun and Spacing, Plant Hardiness Log: Track What Survives Your Winters
• Kelly Sikkema
  • Overhead view of houseplants being repotted on a cardboard sheet, with spilled potting mix and a metal scoop. Used on: Container Soil Calculator: Potting Mix for Pots, Mulch Calculator: Bags and Cubic Yards for Any Bed, Raised Bed Soil Calculator: Cubic Feet, Yards and Bags, Soil and Mulch Calculators for Raised Beds and Borders, Soil and mulch Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, Quarts, Liters and Cubic Feet on a Soil Bag, Soil and Mulch Purchase Record: Buy by the Cubic Foot
  • Small pots on a sunny windowsill, each with a black chalk label naming the plant. Used on: USDA Zone and Frost Date Tools by Zip Code, Plant Hardiness Log: Track What Survives Your Winters, Garden Systems: One Page per Garden Job
• Kolby Milton
  • Tulip shoots pushing up through leaf mulch in early spring. Used on: Plant Hardiness Log: Track What Survives Your Winters
• Kyle Barr
  • A hand spraying water from a hose nozzle beside a wooden raised bed in evening light. Used on: First Raised Bed: Size, Build, Fill and First Planting
• Kyle DeSantis
  • Snow-covered shrubs in a backyard beside a house with a white porch railing. Used on: Frost Dates by Zip Code (NOAA 1991-2020 Normals), USDA Hardiness Zone by Zip Code (2023 Map Data), USDA Zone and Frost Date Tools by Zip Code, Zones Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, What Your USDA Zone Does and Doesn't Tell You, Know Your USDA Zone: Zone Card and Plant Tag Check
• Luba Glazunova
  • Pots of lavender, catmint and white phlox on garden center benches. Used on: USDA Zone and Frost Date Tools by Zip Code, Know Your USDA Zone: Zone Card and Plant Tag Check, Garden Systems: One Page per Garden Job, Garden Bed Math: How Much Soil and Mulch Your Bed Needs
• Luke Gallegos
  • A mulched shrub bed behind a wooden picket fence, with a solar path light and a stepping stone. Used on: Microclimates in One Yard: Find Warm and Cold Spots
• Marc Pell
  • Young pepper transplants in a bed with drip irrigation lines running between them. Used on: Yard Microclimate Map: Find Your Warm and Cold Spots
• Marina De Salis
  • A climbing rose on a white trellis against a gray clapboard house wall below a window. Used on: USDA Zone and Frost Date Tools by Zip Code, Yard Microclimate Map: Find Your Warm and Cold Spots, Garden Systems: One Page per Garden Job
• Markus Spiske
  • Rows of small seedlings coming up in dark soil inside a wooden raised bed. Used on: How Much Compost per Year for a Garden Bed
• Matt Hardison
  • A young tree in a front lawn inside a round mulched bed, with a brick house behind. Used on: Mulch Calculator: Bags and Cubic Yards for Any Bed, Soil and Mulch Calculators for Raised Beds and Borders, Soil and mulch Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, How Much Mulch Around a Tree: Ring Size and Bags, Border Mulch Refresh: Measure, Rake, Buy the Gap
• MowCow Lawn & Landscape
  • Mulched shrub beds along the front of a brick house, with a curved stone wall and a mown lawn. Used on: USDA Hardiness Zone by Zip Code (2023 Map Data), USDA Zone and Frost Date Tools by Zip Code, Zones Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, Plant Tag Says a Warmer Zone Than Yours: What Now, Plant Hardiness Log: Track What Survives Your Winters
• Naoki Suzuki
  • Pansies and ornamental cabbage planted through pine straw mulch and fallen leaves. Used on: Mulch Calculator: Bags and Cubic Yards for Any Bed, Soil and Mulch Calculators for Raised Beds and Borders, Soil and mulch Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, Topping Up Old Mulch: Measure, Rake, Then Buy, Border Mulch Refresh: Measure, Rake, Buy the Gap
• Olivier Amyot
  • A lawn seen from above where a strip of sod has been cut away to bare soil for a new bed. Used on: Compost and Topsoil Calculator: Bags and Cubic Yards, Soil and Mulch Calculators for Raised Beds and Borders, Soil and mulch Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, Turn Lawn Into a Garden Bed This Fall, No Digging, New In-Ground Bed This Fall: Dig It In or Sheet Mulch
• Peter Robbins
  • Frost on roofs and board fences across a row of backyards just after sunrise. Used on: Why One Corner of the Yard Frosts First
• Quilia
  • Gloved hands digging a hole by a brick edge to plant a potted yellow flower. Used on: Plant Tag Says a Warmer Zone Than Yours: What Now
• Rachel Clark
  • Rows of small potted starts in clay-colored trays, each with a white plant tag. Used on: How to Read a Plant Tag: Zones, Sun and Spacing
• Roger Starnes Sr
  • A stone-edged border of daylilies and coneflowers in a mown lawn in front of a brick house. Used on: Soil and Mulch Calculators for Raised Beds and Borders, Border Mulch Refresh: Measure, Rake, Buy the Gap, Fall Leaves Into Mulch: Shred, Spread, Count the Bags, Fall Raised Bed Reset: Clear, Top Up, Cover for Winter, Fill a Tall Raised Bed for Less: Layer Fill Plan, First Raised Bed: Size, Build, Fill and First Planting, Frost Date Worksheet: Your Last and First Frost, Garlic Planting, Zones 3 to 5: Bed Plan and Dates, Garlic Planting, Zones 6 to 7: Bed Plan and Dates, Garlic Planting, Zones 8 to 10: Bed Plan and Dates, Know Your USDA Zone: Zone Card and Plant Tag Check, New In-Ground Bed This Fall: Dig It In or Sheet Mulch, Overwintering Plants in Pots: A Winter Plan for Each Pot, Paver Patio and Gravel Path Base: Dig, Order, Lay, Plant Hardiness Log: Track What Survives Your Winters, Soil and Mulch Purchase Record: Buy by the Cubic Foot, Spring Bulbs, Zones 3 to 5: Planting Map and Dates, Spring Bulbs, Zones 6 to 7: Planting Map and Dates, Spring Bulbs, Zones 8 to 10: Chill, Then Plant, Yard Microclimate Map: Find Your Warm and Cold Spots, Garden Systems: One Page per Garden Job
• Sandie Clarke
  • Soil-covered hands working the top layer of a wooden raised bed with small seedlings in it. Used on: Fill a Tall Raised Bed for Less: Layer Fill Plan
• Sergej *****
  • A curved concrete paver walkway with a raised paver edge along a planted border. Used on: Soil and Mulch Calculators for Raised Beds and Borders, Paver Patio and Gravel Path Base: Dig, Order, Lay, Garden Systems: One Page per Garden Job
• Sibte Arif
  • A gravel path running up a mowed lawn to a white outbuilding, with no pavers or edging. Used on: Gravel and Paver Base Calculator: Bags and Cubic Yards, Soil and Mulch Calculators for Raised Beds and Borders, Soil and mulch Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, A Gravel Path With No Pavers: Depth, Edging and Bags, Paver Patio and Gravel Path Base: Dig, Order, Lay
• Spencer Plouzek
  • A shopper walking past pallets of bagged topsoil, potting mix and mulch at a garden center. Used on: Soil and Mulch Calculators for Raised Beds and Borders, Soil and Mulch Purchase Record: Buy by the Cubic Foot, Garden Systems: One Page per Garden Job
• sq lim
  • Gray concrete pavers stacked on a sand bed beside a section of patio already laid. Used on: Gravel and Paver Base Calculator: Bags and Cubic Yards, Soil and Mulch Calculators for Raised Beds and Borders, Soil and mulch Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, How Deep to Dig for a Paver Patio, Layer by Layer, Paver Patio and Gravel Path Base: Dig, Order, Lay
• T
  • Frost on a back lawn and low shrubs, closed in by a tall hedge. Used on: Frost Dates by Zip Code (NOAA 1991-2020 Normals), USDA Hardiness Zone by Zip Code (2023 Map Data), USDA Zone and Frost Date Tools by Zip Code, Zones Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, It Froze After the Last Frost Date: Reading the Odds, Why One Corner of the Yard Frosts First, How Deep to Mulch Garlic, and When to Pull It Back, How Many Bulbs per Square Foot? Tulips to Crocus, How Many Garlic Cloves for a Bed: Heads and Pounds, How to Read a Plant Tag: Zones, Sun and Spacing, Microclimates in One Yard: Find Warm and Cold Spots, Plant Tag Says a Warmer Zone Than Yours: What Now, Planting Bulbs Before the Ground Freezes: Late-Fall Plan, Can You Plant Onions in the Fall? Dates by Region, Pre-Chilling Garlic in Warm Zones: What Extension Says, Pre-Chilling Tulip Bulbs: Fridge Weeks for Zones 8 to 10, What Your USDA Zone Does and Doesn't Tell You, When to Plant Garlic in Zones 3 to 5: After the First Frost, When to Plant Garlic in Zones 6 to 7: Read Your Frost Date, When to Plant Garlic in Zones 8 to 10: Before the Frost, When to Plant Tulip Bulbs in Zones 3 to 5: Cold-Zone Window, When to Plant Tulip Bulbs in Zones 6 to 7: Fall Window, When to Plant Tulip Bulbs in Zones 8 to 10: After the Fridge, Zone vs Frost Date: Two Different Numbers, Yard Microclimate Map: Find Your Warm and Cold Spots
  • A tall wooden raised bed on a gravel path, planted with onions, chard and flowering herbs, with a hedge behind. Used on: Raised Bed Lumber Calculator: Boards and Cut List, Raised Bed Soil Calculator: Cubic Feet, Yards and Bags, Soil and Mulch Calculators for Raised Beds and Borders, Soil and mulch Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, Bags or Bulk: When a Cubic Yard Delivery Is Cheaper, Fall Compost Bin Reset: Empty, Spread, Rebuild With Leaves, Fall Leaves as Mulch: Shred, Spread and Count the Bags, Fill a Tall Raised Bed for Less: Wood Below, Soil on Top, A Gravel Path With No Pavers: Depth, Edging and Bags, Gravel by the Ton: How Many Cubic Yards Is That?, How Deep Should Mulch Be? Depths by Material, How Deep to Dig for a Paver Patio, Layer by Layer, How Many Tomato Plants in a 4x8 Raised Bed?, How Much Compost per Year for a Garden Bed, How Much Mulch Around a Tree: Ring Size and Bags, Quarts, Liters and Cubic Feet on a Soil Bag, Raised Bed Soil Sank? Why It Settles and How Much to Add, Square Feet vs Cubic Feet: Turning a Bed Into Bags, Topping Up Old Mulch: Measure, Rake, Then Buy, Turn Lawn Into a Garden Bed This Fall, No Digging, Fill a Tall Raised Bed for Less: Layer Fill Plan
• Wendell Shinn
  • A red leaf rake pulling a pile of yellow fall leaves across a concrete drive. Used on: New In-Ground Bed This Fall: Dig It In or Sheet Mulch
• Zoe Richardson
  • A hand in a canvas work sleeve sifting dark compost over a full wheelbarrow. Used on: Compost and Topsoil Calculator: Bags and Cubic Yards, Soil and Mulch Calculators for Raised Beds and Borders, Soil and mulch Guides: Problems Solved, Basics Explained, How Much Compost per Year for a Garden Bed, New In-Ground Bed This Fall: Dig It In or Sheet Mulch

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