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.

However, plants native to the tropics can suffer even when nighttime lows dip into the 40s. The bulk of plants in Pennsylvania landscapes fall somewhere between. Each has a limit to what it’ll endure.

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

Most gardening advice will tell you to amend your soil, fertilize on a schedule, and deadhead religiously. Here’s what that advice skips: the plants that truly take care of themselves don’t want any ...

There is no reason why our winter gardens should be drab and colourless. Nature provides us with an abundance of colourful ...

Some perennials that are just a bit too tender for our hardiness zone can be kept in the landscape with winter protection like a wrap of weed mat, burlap or floating row cover filled with autumn ...

This week’s preview of winter gave outdoor perennial potted plants a rude awakening. This sudden winter burst is a timely reminder to start overwintering potted plants. Why take time to protect potted ...

The official start of spring is March 20, although longtime Oregon gardeners know the real start of the season comes March 22 ...

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 ...