When you're out in the yard pruning your trees, you might be tempted to spruce up your evergreens while you're at it, but ...

When plants fail to sprout in spring, winter is often hastily blamed as the main culprit. In reality, it’s usually several factors working together. Not just extreme cold, but also care mistakes, ...

Your front yard landscape is the welcome mat for your home, which is why it's essential to select plants that complement your home, thrive in your climate, and suit your soil type. Most of us ...

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 ...

Q: My friend has had this plant growing in a shrub bed for years [the reader sent a photo]. He bought it from a plant sale here in Saline County, and it’s been about this size over the years. I like ...

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 ...

My neighbor has started cutting back his perennial garden, and I was wondering if I should do the same in my garden. It seems too early to be cutting back perennials, and some of the ones in my garden ...

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 ...

October is an ideal month for planting perennials. With the temperatures falling, now is the perfect time to get your plants in the ground before the first frosty mornings of winter take their icy ...