Category - Perennials

When it comes to discussing the best plants to grow for the purpose of decoration in your home, one...

How many African plants are growing in your garden? Chances are, not too many. One African native...

Not everyone is born with a green thumb or a desire to turn their yard into an oasis.

Native dahlias found in the mountains of Mexico and Guatemala are the genetic source for the modern...

According to Aesop’s Fables, “a man is known by the company he keeps.” While there may be...

The phrase “In the springtime, everyone is a gardener,” has been attributed to writer Elizabeth...

Few plants can bring a taste of the tropics to temperate gardens quite like ginger lilies or...

People often tell me that they would happily add more southeastern native plants to their...

Few flowers are as evocatively beautiful as the big-flowered clematis hybrids.

Bees are the “A Team” of pollinators. Nothing and nobody pollinate plants better than bees.

Deer are the plague and frustration of many an area homeowner attempting to landscape their yard.

During the dead of winter, our senses long for the summer ahead. I use this time of the year to...

Golden paperbush, winter jasmine, camellias, winter daphne…we have plenty of flowers we love for...

Many people shy away from growing amaryllis for the holidays, concerned that these are too finicky...

In her authoritative book on gardening with bulbs, Louise Beebe Wilder cautions us to “never...