Discover easy-care perennials that spread fast, filling your garden with vibrant color and lush texture all season long.

This simple maintenance practice encourages new growth and vigorous blooming. Flowering in white, pink, purple, blue, and red hues, summer phlox produces fragrant blooms from mid to late summer. Also ...

Wait until fall frost kills tall phlox before pruning to the ground; fall pruning is keeps powdery mildew at bay. Regular deadheading and light trimming encourage bushier growth, extend blooming, and ...

Leave this field empty if you’re human: I have an agreement with my plants: If they can make it without much support, they can stay. I am not nurturing when it comes to this aspect of gardening. There ...

Many kinds of perennial flowers can transform your space into a hummingbird haven and keep these feathered friends coming around. As a professional gardener, I try to choose plants that will bloom ...

Two unusually different rudbeckias. Rudbeckia triloba on the left is one of the smallest flowers in the family, but the plants can get up to 6 feet tall and taller. Front and center is Rudbeckia ...

During the height of summer, plant growth is in full force. And while it's tempting to hold onto as many blooms as possible for as long as you can, it’s sometimes helpful to trim away sections of ...

When selecting plants for an outdoor space, it’s easy to let your eyes do the picking. While pots of bold, colorful flowers always cheer up an outdoor space, don’t overlook another key sense: smell.

The showstopping colors of NEW Phlox Candy Cloud are delivered via heavy flower coverage on a mounded habit. Flowers appear after Phlox subulata and before Salvia nemorosa, filling the perennial gap ...

"We have a group of crepe myrtles growing in our sunny front yard in Zone 7. Grass won't grow in the area beneath them, so we put down mulch. We'd like to add a mix of plants there for more color.