Joanna Gaines’ recipes and beautifully decorated homes are a great source of inspiration, but if you’re not looking at her gardens, too, you’re missing out.

Gaines offers a closer look at her own personal garden in the spring 2025 issue of Magnolia Journal.

It’s a great place to look for ideas, because she’s always changing it.

“I think I’m influenced in this way because the garden is a place of evolution. It is always changing, always the perfect metaphor for life unfolding—especially when I’m willing to encourage variation in what I’m planting season over season,” Gaines says.

By far, the star of the garden is the ranunculus. We knew ranunculus would be big this year—it’s 1-800-Flowers’ 2025 flower of the year—but to see it in Gaines’ garden is the final piece of proof needed that it really has arrived.

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“Out of everything we planted, the ranunculus were the first flowers to bloom after winter—the first sign that warmth and light were on the way. And once they reached peak height and fullness, their petals burst in endless layers and depth of color that truly took my breath away,” Gaines says.

As Gaines knows, ranunculus are beloved for being early spring bloomers that stay flowering all through the beginning of summer. They’re multilayered petals give them a similar look to roses, but much more delicate.

“All spring long, those ranunculus have been a reminder to me that even our most familiar places can, and should, change and evolve—and that branching out is a really beautiful way to grow,” Gaines says.

The beauty of the ranunculus in her garden inspired Gaines to plant the flowers all over the grounds of the Silos, her collection of Magnolia stores in Waco, Texas.

Besides ranunculus, Gaines has chosen anemones, sweet peas, wild aster, linaria, lavender, and scabiosa, among others, for her spring garden.