Articles related to "Perennial Gardening"

It's one thing to plant a garden and another to keep it looking its absolute best. Follow these guidelines for healthy perennial gardens that dazzle.

The language of the garden can be confusing in the beginning. Knowing the difference between annuals, perennials and biennials can set the new gardener on the right path.

If taking measurements and plotting on graph paper just isn't your style, you can still have a beautiful garden by following a few simple rules.

Every perennial gardener wants a showy display of flowers all season from spring to fall. Here's how to get it. Follow this guide for your best perennial garden yet.

Perennial flowers offer a stunning display in shades of pink from March to November. Look for these new versions of old favourites, from ground cover to shade plants.

Onions in the perennial flower garden? You might be surprised how alliums can add dynamic color, unique form and unusual shape to your garden.

A perennial is an ornamental, usually flowering plant that comes up year after year. The cost of replacing flowering annuals is making perennial gardens more popular.

Perennial gardens can be stunning in just a couple of years. A big budget helps, but there are cost-cutting tricks to building beautiful perennial gardens.

Roy Diblik's Small Perennial Gardens: The Know Maintenance Approach is a how-to for growing perennial plants in a Midwest climate. This garden book review explains why.

Not all flowers will thrive in the zones of 7a to 8b, those zones of South Carolina. These will. Choices for the garden include annuals and perennials.

Just beginning to grow perennial flowers? Starting your first perennial flower garden? Follow this basic guide to planting and growing perennial flowers.

A simple How-To tutorial on creating a beautiful perennial garden that is gorgeous in every season!

It is easy to build a spectacular flower garden if you have an unlimited budget. With time and patience you can create the same floral landscape for very little money.

Gardeners have always struggled with what to grow in dark areas of the yard, but shade gardens can be just as beautiful and rewarding as their sunnier counterparts.

Design with big, easy perennials: eye catching, attention grabbing plants that bring excitement to the flower bed or mixed border. Special plants that say "Look at Me!"

It’s spring! But is it time to plant perennials yet? Can container grown hardy perennials be planted before the last spring frost? Maybe yes, maybe no. Find out why.

The Edible Forest Garden is an Agroforestry garden landscape designed to grow a lot of organic food with minimal work and resilient in the face of climate change.

Grouping of plants makes a sustainable perennial garden easier to grow. One plant community includes Baptisia, Geranium, Calamintha and Sporobolus.

Perennials grow bigger and better each year and could outgrow their place in the garden. Plan ahead and space perennial plants to allow for their mature size.

Shaded flower gardens are a delight when done right. Learn how to design and plant a lovely shady flower bed to enjoy all season long. You'll have it made in the shade!

Many perennial flowers should be staked. Learn the best techniques and methods to use in your flower garden and when and why to stake your flowers.

Attractive and hardy, and a potent natural sweetener, stevia is rapidly gaining popularity with home gardeners.

Flower gardeners know perennial flowers respond to basic care with better blooms and vigorous growth. Follow these summer care tips for your best perennial garden ever!

A simple how to article on creating a canine safe garden.

Piles of old newspapers are a non-toxic way to kill weeds and grass in perennial and vegetable gardens

Fall is a busy time in the flower garden. Use this list of reminders and tips to keep up with your fall garden chores, prepare for winter and anticipate spring!

Medicinal herb shown to help prevent migraine headaches and reduce fever. Feverfew, member of the aster family, is a hardy perennial with white daisylike flowers.

Asparagus is a gourmet and highly nutritious perennial vegetable and is one of the best investments a gardener can make, producing a crop for decades.

Camassias are very showy North American bulbs, as easily grown as tulips. Edible yet deer resistant, the flowers offer reliable spring color.

With proper overwintering techniques, which are made much easier with the use of a greenhouse, many plants can be preserved only to be more vigorous beautiful producers.

Many bulb gardeners overlook the beautiful summer flowering bulbs because of the popularity of the spring bulbs. Here are plants to extend the bulb garden season.

Mix Achillea, Salvia, Coreopsis and Calamagrostis in a small sustainable garden. Learn about this perennial plant community ideal for Midwest growing.

Design a perennial flower garden with these easy to grow perennials: widely adapted, easy to grow in a sunny garden, long lived flowers, and they look beautiful, too.

Frederick Meijer Gardens, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a truly unique garden. It unites the art of humankind with the art of nature; an unforgettable experience.

Powell Gardens, located about an hour outside of Kansas City in Kingsville, MO, hosts an attractive display of plants along 1.5 miles of paved trails.

Here are garden books for plant lovers on Santa's holiday gift list. This guide includes historical and cozy mystery books gardeners will enjoy reading this holiday.

Crocus plants are unique in that bulb gardeners can enjoy fall bulb planting or spring bulb planting and yield crocus flowers twice a year!

Ornamental grasses are a hardy, beautiful choice for certain parts of the landscape.

An easy tutorial on how to plant and grow a beautiful long blooming daisy, the moon daisy.

The State Botanical Garden of Georgia, located in Athens on the campus of the University of Georgia, showcases native plants, All-American winners, and plants in history.

Although there are not many blue flowers in autumn gardens, some are available and they have long histories.

Fall does not always mean the shut down of the garden, there is still plenty of color that can be found with these colorful fall perennials.

Easy-to-grow crapemyrtle (Lagerstroemia) dwarf shrubs are newcomers to landscape gardens. Heat tolerant, pest-resistant and summer flowering, they ensure design novelty.

Perennials are those plants in the yard or garden bed that can be counted on to return and bloom every year. Here's a list of perennial plants anyone can grow.

Many herbs have pretty flowers and should be grown in flower gardens. Many favorite flowers are also herbs. Do you grow these herbs in your flower garden?

Grow fragrant annual summer flowers Nicotiana and Heliotropium to create a scented flower garden anywhere.

Online plant trading is fast gaining popularity; this article shows one way to properly ready your day lilies for shipping and trade.

An easy to follow tutorial on planting and getting the best blooms out of hardy hibiscus acetosella.

A simple to follow tutorial on the care and maintenance of roses.

A simple and easy to follow tutorial on growing sweet alyssum like a pro.