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Purple coneflowers or Echinaceas are fabulous perennial plants for use in a wide variety of gardening landscapes. See how to select and grow Echinacea plants.

Herbal treatment or border beauty? It's hard to resist the beautiful coneflowers produced by echinacea. Here's how to raise it from seed and keep it in tip-top condition.

Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) selections and cultivars can enhance prairie and meadow gardens. These native N.A. plants tolerate some shade and moist soil.

The foxglove is versatile. It can be tall enough for the back of the border or left to go to seed at the edge of a woodland garden. It's a perfect plant for naturalizing.

This is the hardiest pitcher plant of them all and a great carnivorous plant for bog gardens, patios, conservatories and sunny windowsills.

Echinacea is a medicinal herb that many people vow strengthens their immune systems and keeps colds away.

The foxglove is a stately plant that has been featured in gardens for centuries. This growing guide will help you care for, maintain and select the best foxglove.

Echinacea purpurea can be found in many colors, flower forms and some scented for fragrant gardens. Unusual coneflowers are still appropriate for butterfly gardens.

Biennial plants are usually hardy, easy to grow plants that self-sow in the garden, so these yellow blooming plants will make great additions to a yellow themed garden.

Echinacea, native to North America, is one of the most famous and effective herbs in the modern herbal pharmacopoeia.

Echinacea supplements are often used as a cold and flu remedy. The following discusses echinacea benefits, side effects and what precautions to take when using this herb.

Common foxglove has a long history of medicinal use in Europe and is a popular cottage garden flower; however, foxglove is also poisonous and should be used with care.

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.

Echinacea (coneflower) hybrids are up-to-the-minute plant breakthroughs. American plant breeders work to bring bright flower and plant color to landscape garden designs.

Hardy herb sage produces evergreen leaves throughout winter. A handful of sage leaves, hot oil in a pan and tempura batter will create finger food for winter parties.

Learn about the plants that provide winter interest with blue, purple or black colored berries.

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.

This pink and lilac garden highlights showy North American native species that will be colorful from June to early fall.

Continuing to look at our herbs and medieval plants still in use today. Many medieval herbs and plants are still used in modern gardens very successfully.

Summer is the season when perennial plants take center stage with bright, long lasting flowers that stand up to the summertime heat. See eight perennial garden favorites!

A medicinal herb garden was a colonial home remedy necessity. Now, we grow them as much for beauty. Read about a cold remedy, sore throat, & acne remedy etc.

Not all evergreen plants have green leaves. Here is a selection of broadleaf evergreen shrubs with red, purple, silver or other colored foliage.

A great many trees and shrubs have purple foliage that can create garden drama, whether as specimens or integrated as the backbone of a garden bed. Here are 17 varieties.

Ancient herbal remedies such as willow bark, may be a preferred method of treating many illnesses.

What better place to celebrate Independence Day than in a garden full of plants that celebrate that spirit of "freedom and liberty for all".

The first recorded accounts of biological agents being used as weapons were from the 6th century B.C.

An unusual plant with a lot of character adds color to a shallow shelf in your water garden.

Plant these summer flowers to keep your garden looking fresh and blooming all season: choose from annuals, perennials, shrubs, bulbs, vines and tropical plants.

A number of time-tested herbs provide significant relief for allergy sufferers. Used alone or in combinations, herbs target many common allergy and sinus symptoms.

A look at a few bog plants designed for water gardens or just plants for a bog garden.

Standard shrubs have a head of branches at the top of a clear stem. They give height to borders, make excellent lawn specimens and are ideal for tubs and large pots.

Summer is the time to show off the rich colors of flowers in a garden. Optimum planting creates enjoyment throughout the summer.

A simple how to guide to create a butterfly garden. Environmentally friendly herb gardening to attract bees and butterflies. Insect pollinators are in serious decline.

Introducing height into the garden can be accomplished by using plants, garden structures, fountains and even a mound of earth.

Remember Venus Fly Traps from biology or botany class? Flowering pitcher plants, attractive and exotic can be grown in most gardens with the right care.

Help save Butterflies by planting a Buddleia Bush or by letting the nettles grow? Every grower can do something to preserve this beautiful insect.

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.

Every garden has a difficult hot sunny spot where most flowers fail. Plant some or all of these proven hardy perennial performers in your flower garden this summer.

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.

Flowers and butterflies (and caterpillars) go together. Plan your flower garden to attract butterflies and grow a magical butterfly habitat in your own back yard.

Fragrant Lavandula plants will create a scented garden or can be part of xeriscape flowerbeds. There are many English and French lavender flower varieties to choose.

Year-round color, rich greenery, and bright, flashy blooms are available to gardeners who live in dry climates, such as the southwestern United States.

Sage carries a history as rich as the flavor it brings to food.

Buying large numbers of herbaceous perennials is expensive. However, growing perennials from seed is easy, much cheaper, and more fun than buying ready grown plants.

This family of annual vines has been charming gardeners for centuries as a staple of cottage and heirloom gardens. Fragrant and colorful flowers abound.

In 1692 a climate of fear and anxiety led to the deaths of 20 people during the Salem Witchcraft Trials. What were the reasons for this case of panic and injustice?

Native Americans have used herbs and other plants for healing for centuries; their knowledge of healing remedies has been handed down from one generation to the next.

Many Native American Indian tribes have traditions associated with love and the act of marriage; traditions include love potions and the symbolism of nature's union.

Organic flower gardening requires much less work if you use plants that evolved in your city, state, region, or country. You may think of native plants as wild flowers.

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.