Cool-season bedding plants enjoy mild to chilly weather and will tolerate the freezing temperatures that may occur. Those are ...

Damp shade tends to be on the north-side of buildings or walls where there's nothing competing for the moisture. Spring-flowering bulbs ... beautiful foliage plants with leaves in all sorts of colours ...

Calvin Finch describes the colors of this vibrant flower like "waxy show paint on the clown’s face at an old-fashioned circus ...

The most pleasant perennial gardens are a combination of types. Most perennials bloom profusely during a specific season, such as spring, mid-summer or fall. Peonies bloom in late May through ...

There are three tools I use for dividing plants: a long, skinny trenching shovel, a hori hori, and a good serrated bread knife. For flowering bushes (coneflower, daisies, veronica, salvia ...

Some perennials may only bloom for a couple of weeks, while others offer color for up to four months. To keep your yard looking vibrant year-round, make sure to focus on long-blooming perennials ...

but if you plant "repeat blooming" varieties, the flowers will continue sporadically all summer long and produce an impressive flush of blooms when the weather cools down in late summer.

They are the plants that survive most winters and come up again in spring. To keep the perennials in your landscape living a long and healthy ... which leads to diminished bloom time, poor ...