Perennials Articles
Four Perennials that Provide the Best Winter Garden Views.
As winter's chill slowly retreats and spring begins to warm our gardens, a spectacular symphony of perennial flowering starts to unfold before our eyes.
Summer blossoms provide essential nourishment to bees, butterflies, and other insects, ensuring the cycle of life continues in harmony. Let's uncover 5 hardy, easy-to-grow perennials that thrive in summer's embrace and create bustling havens for pollinators.
Knowing the amount of sun and shade you have in your garden is critical to selecting the right plants for the right place. But there are other factors in the northern garden that will influence your plant's health.
Sometimes, you want a flowering plant that can fill a large space in summer and then disappear in winter. The answer is shrub-like perennials.
Before you run out to purchase the most alluring variety of hydrangea you see, take a moment to plan where it will be planted, what conditions it will experience and what type of plant you want.
As we move into “stick” season as we call it in New England, when mostly we're looking at bare tree and shrub branches, it's good to remember we can have more than “sticks” in our yards.
Winter is a good time of year to consider what to do with areas of your yard where plants don't grow well. These problem places could be due to a variety of reasons such as poor soil, extreme weather exposure and slopes.
Not only are songbirds critical for our habitat and gardens, they also bring joy as a welcome sight and sound of spring. To help the song birds in your area, you can create a better habitat for them to thrive.
Hot, dry summers can be brutal on perennial flower gardens. It's important to keep the gardens well watered and mulched.
