Once upon a time when the central-Pennsylvania landscape was routinely snow-covered all winter long, about the only thing green sticking out above the sea of white were evergreen shrubs and trees. But ...

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Discover gorgeous low-maintenance perennials that deliver stunning blooms for long-lasting color and texture throughout the ...

Certain plants come into vogue and then slip off their pedestal. The daylily in all its rich variety was once the perennial to plant for its seemingly endless supply of showy blooms in the gathering ...

Q: I was out looking around the yard and noticed that a lot of my perennials are still green - things like lamium, daisies, helleborus, liriope, lamb's ears and foamflowers. Will it help them or hurt ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In much of the U.S., soil stays warmer than the air into November. So, many perennials can keep growing roots without the stress of summer ...

CORVALLIS – Pacific Northwest gardeners are faced with the pleasant dilemma of choosing from an encyclopedia-length list of perennials that grow in our friendly climate, and many of those thrive in ...

Q: My friend has had this plant growing in a shrub bed for years [the reader sent a photo]. He bought it from a plant sale here in Saline County, and it’s been about this size over the years. I like ...

Screen a backyard fence with this low-maintenance shrub ...

Finding color in the landscape can be difficult during the tail end of fall. Trees have turned color and have lost most of their leaves, and most perennials are dying back to the ground to go dormant ...

With the extensive damage to so many of our woody landscape plants, perennials are doing a great job this year of adding some color and depth to our landscapes. Very few perennials were damaged by the ...