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 ...

Over the years, new cultivars have evolved with more upward-facing flowers and color ranges from pinks to reds to all the colors of the rainbow. I have written about hellebores many times over the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shrubs that will keep your front yard fresh and striking all year round ...

Tina Wilson wasn’t always a perennial gardener. But in 1990, faced with a completely bare landscape surrounding her newly built house, she gladly accepted some asters from her mother-in-law. She ...

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 ...

As late winter exposes bare soil across UK borders, Gardeners' World presenter Joe Swift names nine hardy fillers to plant ...