Winterizing your garden includes trimming back some perennials and leaving others until spring. Our experts tell you what to ...

For a yard full of fall colors, don't just look to foliage to fill your need. Perennials that produce fruit can also be a ...

Autumn is a great time to plant perennials in the garden. Discover gorgeous perennial plants that add autumn hues, winter foliage, and early spring blooms to the garden.

The Perennial Plant Association has chosen butterfly weed, Asclepias tuberosa, as its 2017 Perennial Plant of the Year. You might wonder at the choice of a plant with “weed” in its name, but this ...

The Perennial Plant Association has named the butterfly milkweed as its perennial plant of the year. The native North American wildflower has pods that are smooth, apple green and slender compared to ...

The best way to attract butterflies to your garden is to give them plenty of bloom. Butterflies don’t care whether your gardening style is formal or informal, and they’re not that picky about color ...

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Most of my favorite plants are herbaceous perennials. I love trees and shrubs, and could not live without my short-lived annual flowers. But the variety of plants that excite and dazzle me for nearly ...

Pentas, lantana, verbena, zinnia, salvias (many different species and cultivars), Mexican butterfly weed (Asclepias curassavica) and buddleia are excellent flowering plants to attract butterflies to ...

When shopping for flowers in springtime, it is easy to get a little carried away. So many blooms to choose from, and they are all so pretty! It can be hard to pick a favorite, but plants and flowers ...

If you want monarch butterflies to flutter through your garden, you have to entice them with a tasty snack. And there is little tastier to butterflies than the aptly named butterfly weed (Asclepias ...