Perennials are a wonderful way to bring color to your garden year after year, whether it's a sprig of lavender or a cluster of chrysanthemums. However, for many, growing flowers and vegetables in ...

Perennials for cool season containers may seem like the proverbial horticultural oxymoron, but that is exactly what I have been planting the last few days in my zone 8a landscape. My favorite pansy ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — When selecting perennials for container gardening, it's important to choose plants that thrive well in confined spaces, maintain their beauty throughout the growing season, and ...

Bare-root perennial plants often intimidate container gardeners because they arrive looking fragile or sometimes even dead, but it's actually not a bad thing. They are dormant plants sold without soil ...

Pink coneflower echinacea purpurea blooming by purple agastache in summer garden. - Maryviolet/Getty Images Gardening shouldn't feel like an impossible chore. If it's begun to seem like all you do is ...

Pollinators – like bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds – are indispensable to the world as we know it. They fertilize plants, and that includes most of the plants we eat. But pollinator populations ...

Bring bees and butterflies to your garden by planting Casa Blanca lilies. Their graceful white petals house green stamen with blood-orange anthers that bloom on three- to four-foot-tall stalks. These ...