Nothing catches the eye in a garden quite like a bright red flower, for humans and hummingbirds alike. And while perennials ...

Coneflowers are not subtle. They have a large central seed head with vibrant pink or purple petals radiating outwards and ...

Pruning in July allows room for tender annuals and perennials to flourish in borders.

Native shrubs offer many benefits to the home landscape. Their value to wildlife and general ease of care are becoming better ...

I hear bad advice on watering, such as watering during the heat of day "burns up" your plants. Here's the truth about ...

Grass can crowd out your flowers, reducing their airflow and increasing their risk for disease. To remove grass from your ...

If your annual flowers aren’t exploding with celebratory fireworks of color right now, it may be lack of fertilizer.

Eclipse gets large, round, “mophead” flowers in late June to early July that are mostly cranberry-red but with creamy centers, making it read like a red bicolor. The color is striking amid the dark ...

Some of the best dried flowers are strawflowers, celosia, statice, baby’s breath, lavender, amaranth, roses, and hydrangeas.

Almost everyone wants color in the landscape, and flowerbeds play an important role in that. But it takes a lot of work to ...

Want to spend more time enjoying your garden and less time maintaining it? Discover low-maintenance shrubs and perennials ...

Perennials are plants and flowers that grow and bloom over the spring and summer, die every autumn and winter and then grow ...