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.

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 ...

The Southwestern Colorado Research Center in Yellow Jacket recently planted an acre of a promising perennial crop called silphium. Native to the Great Plains of Kansas, it has interested ...

Everyone knows the annual sunflower, but the related perennial sunflower is the one for grown-ups. Every sunny garden should have at least one, for there are several species and varieties.

Jerusalem artichoke, or sunchoke, a perennial sunflower, will try to outdo even the tall coneflower in height and inclination to spread. And like the tall coneflower, it will provide a feast for ...

The benefits of sunflowers are so abundant that no yard should be without them. I’m not referring to the large-headed annual cultivars you see growing in a field, but rather the native perennial ...

Pollen and nectar-rich perennial sunflowers include Helianthus angustifolius, an easy-going 6-footer with abundant clusters of 3-inch blossoms from mid- to late summer.

Health Diseases GMOs And Perennial Crops: Not A Thing (Yet, Anyway) Brooke Borel Nov 14, 2014 9:51 PM EST ...