Annuals are likely your go-to’s for full sun summer flowers, but some perennials give them a run for their money. These full sun perennials are tough, dependable and flower for weeks. That’s a bonus ...

Many annuals and perennials need plenty of sunlight to thrive. Whether you have sunny areas in your front, side, or backyard or a porch, patio, or balcony and want to add more plants that will come ...

Your sunny garden needs both annuals and perennials to attract pollinators and provide season-long color to your yard. While annuals bloom for one season from the time you plant them until frost, ...

The 2026 Perennial Plant of the Year is Blackhawks big bluestem, a cultivar of one of the dominant grasses of the North ...

PERENNIALS AND shrubs fill, soften or add piquancy to every niche in Kate and Rick Poole’s Bellevue garden. A sourwood’s white blooms contrast with the red hips of a tall rose (Rosa rubrifolia) on a ...

Gardening can feel like a delicate dance of watering, weeding, fertilizing, and praying for the sun to shine just right. But ...

When creating a new garden or looking for new additions, check out the Perennial Plants of the Year (PPOY). Selected by members of the Perennial Plant Association, winners must be suited to a wide ...

The Perennial Plant Association has selected Aralia cordata "Sun King" as the 2020 Perennial Plant of the Year. This group of professional growers has been selecting a plant of the year since 1990.

Sometimes a perennial is so good you want to get on a soapbox or scream about it from the rooftop. Aralia "Sun King" is one of those perennials. I discovered this plant a few years ago and love it ...

For the home gardener, the term perennial means a plant with stems that usually die back in winter and a root system from which new foliage and flowers grow the following year. Most perennials have ...

The end of September is not the time to start pruning back hydrangeas, roses, magnolias, and most other trees and shrubs. Pruning always stimulates growth, and now is when you want to encourage your ...

The older I get, the larger my gardens seem. Although they have not actually grown in physical size, it takes me longer to weed them, cut back perennials in them, and water them in dry conditions than ...