Perennials in your cutting garden is a great way to have cut flowers that are low maintenance. A cutting garden does not always have to start from seed.
Gallery featuring 47 gorgeous perennial garden ideas for your home, showcasing the wide range of flowers of this type.
Considered "the most influential garden designer of the past 25 years," Dutch plantsman Piet Oudolf has done for perennial gardening what artist Leonard Ko
Soapwort makes a great addition to many home gardens as a ground cover and space filler. It also does well in rock and gravel gardens.
Plumbago is one of the stars of the summer garden. A perennial down South, an annual up North, this easy to grow flower is always a winner in the garden!
Learn just how easy Hellebore care is with these tips on planting, fertilizing, and pruning Lenten Rose (as well as some great varieties)
Looking for a fuss-free perennial that's attractive, dependable, deer-resistant, multiseasonal and extremely long-lived? Meet baptisia-a prairie native whose beautiful spires are reminiscent of the beloved lupine, minus the maintenance.
Growing gaura plants is easy. Just provide its basic needs and prevent root rot. More tips for care of the gaura plant and its uses. [LEARN MORE]
A garden classic, the hellebore is best featured with other plants that help it to show off. Learn about the best Lenten rose companions on Gardener's Path.
Learn how you an use perennials for containers to save money and to help your existing plants flourish and produce more blooms.
Most gardeners are familiar with classic perennials such as daylilies, peonies, hostas, and iris, but there's a whole host of less-known perennials that also can add color and interest to your garden. They may be a little harder to find at your garden center or online, but these gorgeous perennials are all worth the effort.
These winter kill hydrangeas care tips will get your hydrangeas looking their best. What to look for, when & if to prune and types of hydrangeas it affects.
Looking for some plants that will grow in the shade and help to hide bulb foliage? This list of shade perennials to plant with spring bulbs is perfect!
Looking for a perennial you can count on? You won’t be disappointed with the beauty and blooms of these dependable perennials.
30 shade-loving perennials to plant before spring.
Learn how to grow lisianthus in the garden, how to start it from seed and how to use lisianthus as a cut flower.
I was going to write about Verbena bonariensis to sing its praises in long periods of drought and then I heard something odd. I was at a talk at the Garden Museum in London and an audience member asked/stated: "What would you say to all the male designers who always plant V. bonariensis and grasses?
These are the best perennial flowers for clay soil that thrive where others don't. Select from these native species, ornamental grasses, and more.
The site: A medieval nobleman's summer retreat, a palace in ruins, in the Piedmontese hills of northern Italy. The challenge: Create a modern garden to com
Learn just how easy Hellebore care is with these tips on planting, fertilizing, and pruning Lenten Rose (as well as some great varieties)
Discover the best plants for clay soil and how to care for them so you can transform your challenging clay soil into a thriving garden.
Do you want to grow a colorful plant that blooms when others are still in winter dormancy? Learn how to plant and grow hellebores now on Gardener’s Path.
Any plant that has green, soft and succulent stem in spite of the wood and brown
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Need a cheap decorating idea for a minimalist or other style garden? This collection of ideas for you. You wil
First, What is a companion plant? Plant society members often think of their ‘pet’ plants as the stars of any border: flowering perennials, shrubs, trees and climbing plants that are gu…
Suited to USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 8, lungwort adorns shady spots in pink and blue flowers and speckled greenery. Learn to grow it now on Gardener’s Path.
Highly popular, Artemisia schmidtiana 'Silver Mound' is a compact, semi-evergreen perennial forming a ravishing silky cushion of finely cut silver foliage. Tiny, yellow nodding flower-heads appear in mid or late summer, but they are ornamentally insignificant and are best cut off to keep the foliage at its best. A great choice as a neutral spacer or framing plant, Silver Mound Artemisia is a graceful addition to the landscape, in combination with perennials whose flowers are mostly in the cool color range (pink, lavender, blue, purple, and even scarlet to maroon). One of the few Artemisia that is not invasive by underground rhizomes.
These colorful perennial water-loving plants need constant moisture; some will grow in standing water.
Perennials are kind of plants that live for years and mostly grow little buds that bloom into roses of different colors. Perennials grow through different seasons of the year; it depends on the type o
Longer blooms and heightened fragrance are features of this year’s plants that have been bred for conditions ranging from full sun to shade, writes Mark Cullen and Ben Cullen.
I love planting perennials in my garden because they tend to do well, and they will last for more than a year when you plant them. This also means that they
Heuchera, or coral bells, is an easy-to-grow, low-maintenance perennial plant for shade. Here's how to care for heuchera in your garden!
Christopher Bradley-Hole made a stir a few years ago with his Chelsea Flower Show garden, mainly consisting of different heights of boxwoods. Was it cold,
by Matt Gibson Perfect for sunny spots in garden beds and ideal for containers, the agapanthus flower is a summer blooming perennial. The South African native agapanthus is typically seen with globes of trumpet-shaped blossoms in deeper shades of blue and purple, but there are some varieties with lighter shades, such as pink and white. […]
These winter kill hydrangeas care tips will get your hydrangeas looking their best. What to look for, when & if to prune and types of hydrangeas it affects.
These beautiful compact perennials can be used as ground covers for shade to add interest to your garden while helping to keep the weeds down.
Astilbes can brighten up your shade garden and are even low-maintenance! Learn what they need to thrive in order to grow in your garden all Summer long!
Create striking displays with the sturdy stems and stunning cut flower blooms of agapanthus
Do you want to grow a colorful plant that blooms when others are still in winter dormancy? Learn how to plant and grow hellebores now on Gardener’s Path.
Beautiful Garden Flower Ideas
By Kelly Jacobi Hostas are a popular perennial plant featured in gardens indoors and out across the country. A healthy hosta plant can produce a large cluster of other hostas in a tight bunch. If you’d like to divide the bunch either to care for your plants or to make use of them elsewhere, you’ll […]
