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Combining perennials that bloom during each season ensures your garden or landscaping will be constantly flowering ...

Does a dark and moody garden fit your style better than a farmhouse garden? Then a mysterious and brooding gothic or “goth” ...

This fall, don't let your garden fall flat. Plant one of the many fall-blooming perennials that'll last into the winter ...

The trend for drifts of perennial plants is easy to do in your own space if you start with combinations of two then push out ...

Next to weeding the garden, the chore most gardeners dread is fall cleanup. If you garden, you’re familiar with the annual ...

Upright stems carry small, grey-blue, thistle-like flowers that sit on a broad, spiny ruff that adds enormously to their ...

Winterizing salvias can protect them from frost, snow, biting gales and other harsh winter weather. This can help them ...

Some perennials should be pruned in fall, while others benefit from waiting until spring. This guide provides insight into ...

The cooler weather of September and October causes renewed root growth and, in some cases, top growth. Both better enable perennials to survive the ensuing winter. Don't wait too long, however, since ...

From the podcast The Beginner’s Garden, host Jill McSheehy recommends planting perennials, like ornamental shrubs or fruit-bearing trees, bushes and canes now. According to McSheehy, once the ...

The 2025 Entrance Garden alone will feature 20 flowering trees, large-scale floral sculptures, a lighted archway, and three flower-lined curtains of water that Pearsoll said is aimed at ...