Find the best ground cover plants that blanket the garden with color and texture. Grow ground covers for shade, drought, ...

Discover low-maintenance shrubs and perennial plants that thrive in shade gardens. Spend less time pruning and watering, and ...

Various potted ornamental trees and shrubs in front of a white classical building wall - Anastasiia Akh/Shutterstock For people who have extremely poor soil or no garden space, pots are a real ...

Once upon a time when the central-Pennsylvania landscape was routinely snow-covered all winter long, about the only thing green sticking out above the sea of white were evergreen shrubs and trees. But ...

Foundation plants don’t have to be boring. Our list of evergreens, small shrubs, perennials, and ground covers can make a ...

Mulch can be a threat to your garden's micro-environment, getting in the way of bees and other organisms. Low-growing plants ...

CORVALLIS – Pacific Northwest gardeners are faced with the pleasant dilemma of choosing from an encyclopedia-length list of perennials that grow in our friendly climate, and many of those thrive in ...

Certain plants come into vogue and then slip off their pedestal. The daylily in all its rich variety was once the perennial to plant for its seemingly endless supply of showy blooms in the gathering ...

While pruning is needed for a number of plants in the spring period, there are also a few you can get if you want an easier option ...

Q: I was out looking around the yard and noticed that a lot of my perennials are still green - things like lamium, daisies, helleborus, liriope, lamb's ears and foamflowers. Will it help them or hurt ...

With the extensive damage to so many of our woody landscape plants, perennials are doing a great job this year of adding some color and depth to our landscapes. Very few perennials were damaged by the ...