Goetze: Perhaps one of the greatest achievements of New World, native peoples was their domestication, cultivation and improvement of native plants.

If you want a low-maintenance summer garden, choosing species that are adapted to the heat is key. This swamp-loving flower is the perfect pick.

Sunflowers provide summer color. August 18, 2024 at 4:00 a.m. by David Trinklein, For the News Tribune ...

Also known as ox-eye sunflowers, false sunflowers are easy-growing flowering perennials that naturalize in grasslands and at the edge of woodlands. They are a wildflower native to the eastern two ...

A perennial sunflower planted in Yellow Jacket holds promise By Cameryn Cass Special to The Journal Tuesday, Nov 12, 2024 2:09 PM Updated Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024 3:33 PM ...

Late Summer's Perennial Spectacular. August 26, 2009. By Adrian Higgins. As unpleasantly hot and humid as Washington can be in August, there are moments in the garden when it's actually quite ...

Homes & Gardens; Sunflower stats, tips and five perennials that offer the same sunny look as the popular annual. Updated: ; Sep. 06, 2013, 7:30 p.m. | Published ...

Last week, I published a story at NOVA Next about perennial crops, which, in this context, are grains and oilseeds bred to survive multiple seasons. The basic gist is this: researchers are trying ...

Growing Wild in Tennessee. Steve Bender. ... 13 species of perennial sunflowers, and 17 species of goldenrod (no, they DO NOT cause allergies!). On the tree and shrub side, ...