Add beautiful winter interest to your garden with these perennial plants. Many perennials fizzle out in late autumn, shedding leaves, dropping stems, and receding underground for a long winter's nap.

Preparing perennial beds for winter does not require a full clear-out. A few considered tasks now will protect your plants ...

However, plants native to the tropics can suffer even when nighttime lows dip into the 40s. The bulk of plants in ...

A perennial garden covered with frost in the winter. - Wiert nieuman/Shutterstock As you prepare your garden for winter, you may look around and see perennial beds full of dead flowers and wilted ...

You probably know that, unlike annuals, perennial plants bring timeless beauty to the garden year after year. Unfortunately, this is only true if they can survive the winter. The good news is that by ...

There is no reason why our winter gardens should be drab and colourless. Nature provides us with an abundance of colourful winter and spring flowers. Poppies, snapdragons, Namaqualand daisies, pansies ...

The small yellow flowers are attracting the first pollinators of the season, along with native skunk cabbage and other early ...

In simpler times, container gardening was small-scale landscaping using flowering annuals. Enjoy their color for one season and go with something new the next. But shifts toward food production and ...

Do you know what a secateur is? I encountered the word a few years ago in a magazine featuring Martha Stewart, who was describing the fine points of the secateur she was marketing. A secateur is ...

As the saying goes, money can’t buy happiness. But money can buy plants, and plants make us happy; therefore, money can indeed buy happiness, as long as you spend your money on plants. Perennials are ...

Many perennials fizzle out in late autumn, shedding leaves, dropping stems, and receding underground for a long winter's nap. Thankfully, there’s a whole host of these come-again plants that dazzle ...