Beautiful Perennial Plants section. All about perennials, flowers, and bushes, growing and caring for them.
Flower spikes of Kniphofia thomsonii var. snowdenii (red-hot pokers) are typically crowded with flowers and vivid in coloring. Flower spikes of Snowden's poker (Snowden's red hot poker) are strikingly airy, with an…
A client gave me the mandate to enhance her flowerbed whenever I find a reliable perennial that blooms in purple. (This time it would be Vernonia Lettermannii) To please her,…
Whenever I receive a catalog from an online nursery, I first search for perennials I have never seen or planted before. I tend to focus on those that are considered…
Once upon a time, when the number of perennials was fewer than now, and gardeners focused on the aroma as much as they did on beauty, there bloomed an almost…
After a historically warm March, Winter-like temperatures have returned in early April. Sure, the still-tiny tree buds aren't fazed: They are still somewhat protected by their bud scales. Plus, they…
Black false hellebore, (dark-flowered white hellebore, black Veratrum) is one of hardy horticulture's enduring unicorns: It's rarely available for sale, is famously poisonous to every creature, but the favored pollinators…
If you want to create a traditional perennial border that will impress everyone with its beauty and diversity, you need to include some full sun perennials in your garden. These…
I love growing Veronica, and if you want to broaden your variety of blue blooms in your yard in spring, you might want to look for some of these plants…
Pincushion flowers, sometimes referred to as Scabiosa, are members of a family of flowers that includes both annual and perennial species of blooms. It got its name from the fact…
Growing phlox in pots for the primary season summer border is growing a three-season garden backbone plant. This is the kind of plant that flowers for a long time, is…