To help you create a beautiful space of your own, we put a single question to professional horticulturalists: if you could ...

Q. I’ve always understood that plants referred to as perennials died down to the ground for the winter. Then, recently, I heard someone speaking about “evergreen” perennials. What kind of plants are ...

Is it better to plant perennials in the fall or in the spring? We asked three gardening experts, and they all agreed. Here's ...

If you have any shady areas in your gardens that don't look as nice as you'd like them, consider adding in some Hellebores (Helleborus x hybrids syn. Helleborus orientalis hybrids). These plants have ...

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 ...

Mulch can be a threat to your garden's micro-environment, getting in the way of bees and other organisms. Low-growing plants ...

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: 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...