Many dogwood varieties don’t need sun and will tolerate partial- to full-shade conditions. One spectacular species to try is ...

As a perennial, mint dies back to the ground each winter and reemerges in spring. A single mint plant can live for up to five years, but the plant is easily divided, so it can provide a continuous ...

Mixed Perennial Garden This mailbox garden combines multiple layers of color and texture to create year-round visual interest ...

March winter is wearying. Gift your yard with an early spring by planting early spring flowers. Start planning what you'll ...

These perennial herbs return year after year, saving you money in the long run Growing perennial herbs is a savvy way to save ...

Flower beds are beginning to colour up again as the ... Nile’ or ‘Easter lily’, but is not a true lily. This lovely perennial plant has a rhizome-like rootstock and will grow in the same ...

There's nothing like watching the world finally come back to life in the spring. Here's how to get your garden ready for the ...

Sara Coleridge, daughter of Samuel Coleridge the poet, wrote verses for children during the mid-1800s and amongst her ditties about gardens and flowers that bloom each month, she is perhaps most ...

Ground cover can make a huge difference to plants and wildlife in your garden. This beautiful perennial provides shelter ...

In Fielding Questions, Don Kinzler also shares the best time and method for cleaning out perennial garden beds.

Others celebrated charting new, adaptive opportunities. Longtime Alaska gardening columnist Jeff Lowenfels thinks perennial flower beds are in trouble. “We’ve got a real problem here ...

The rhubarb plant grows in a large clump and has large distinctive foliage, and some gardeners find it suitable to include in a perennial flower bed. Rhubarb crowns are best planted in early ...