I am a confessed blooming perennial junkie. These reliable plants return year after year, filling my garden with color with very little effort on my part. Sure, I'll go for some annuals for containers ...

Perennials are the mainstay of the garden during the growing season. Many gardeners add annuals to flower beds and containers in summer, to have blooms happening continuously. But there are also ...

Summer is the height of the garden season, when most perennials put on their flower show. As a professional gardener, much of my planning and design work includes considering which perennial plants ...

Tired of your garden looking dull halfway through the summer? Many gardeners struggle to keep their gardens vibrant as the season progresses. The solution lies in choosing the right plants.

Hi Eileen, This is a subject that would take some time to research. Under the pines is an especially difficult area. Most people I know who've been successful have turned to ground covers such as ...

Perennials that are long blooming are great for your gardening landscape. The following is a list of some of my favorites. A reader requested that I make a list. This is the time of year to start ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Some of our favorite perennials are here and gone in an instant, and we love them anyway — think peonies and lilacs. But the garden can very much benefit from some long blooming ...

July is a great time to fill in those blank spots with long-blooming perennials. (Yes, it is OK to plant in the summer.) It seems a bit trivial to complain about the weather, considering the pandemic, ...

>> IT SOUNDS EXCITING. LISA: TIME NOW TO ANSWER SOME OF YOUR PLANT QUESTIONS. JOINING ME THIS AFTERNOON IS CYNTHIA MANN FROM VALLEY VIEW FARMS. HEY CYNTHIA. >> HOW ARE YOU DOING? I GOT SOME ...

Here are 10 picks for long-blooming perennials that will anchor your flower garden. Among flowering plants, annuals pump out lots of colorful blossoms all season, then die as winter sets in. But they ...