Perennial flowers may be expensive but are well worth the investment. Summer perennials come back year after year, and many are low-maintenance, easy-care plants. Moreover, the perennials you'll find ...

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It might sound ruthless, but sometimes, whacking a plant almost to the ground during the growing season is the best thing you can do for it. That’s especially true for perennial flowers that are ...

Bring a bit of your fall garden indoors. Many of your fall flowering perennials make great cut flowers to enjoy in arrangements for your home and bouquets to share with others. Harvest your flowers ...

Every spring, I cut fragrant lilac stems from the two bushes flanking my front gate at my home on Long Island, N.Y., and set them in a vase indoors, where their fragrance perfumes the entire first ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

Did you hear about the latest botanical breakthrough? A plant breeder finally succeeded in crossing a four-leaf clover with poison ivy. That’s right, he had a rash of good luck. We’ve focused our last ...

Also known as yarrow, Achillea is a perennial plant with clusters of bright yellow blooms that show for weeks, usually from late spring to late summer. It has beautiful, fern-like foliage with a ...

As I wander the grounds of the arboretum throughout the month of May, my eye is caught by the blue flowers of the late spring-blooming plant commonly known as Stokes aster. Closely related to its ...