The charismatic flowers of the Rozanne geranium are one reason why this plant is on New England Botanic Garden’s list of favorite summer-blooming perennials. Herbaceous perennials, plants that return ...

Adding tall perennials to your garden is one of the best ways to create visual interest, bring balance, and elevate your ...

This beautiful perennial planted in spring doesn't just grow strong roots. It also produces gorgeous blue flowers and ...

Great blue lobelia is a Missouri native perennial plant that has wonderfully shaped blue flowers. It sometimes is called blue cardinal flower. The great blue lobelia loves to grow in wet, shaded areas ...

To be successful with your gardens next spring and summer, put in new plants now. That’s the advice of garden experts, including Bruce Peachee, horticulture curator at the Virginia Living Museum in ...

April is an excellent month to add perennial flowers to your garden for beautiful blooms that will last for years. There is a wide selection of native North American perennials that can be planted ...

Attracting birds, bees and butterflies to the garden is easy if you landscape with a wide variety of colorful flowers. Create a wildlife habitat by planting the following low-maintenance perennials.

Hummingbirds are very plentiful this time of the year if you have plants that attract them to your garden. The native bright red Cardinal flower is their all time favorite. Hummingbirds are very ...

John Burroughs, the 19th-century naturalist, wrote, “But when vivid color is wanted, what can surpass or equal our Cardinal flower? There is a glow about this flower as if color emanated from it as ...

Herbaceous perennials, plants that return year after year, but lack the woody stems of trees and shrubs, are some of my favorite ornamental plants in the summer garden. Unlike their early season ...