Creating a beautiful flower garden takes planning, preparation and time. Putting plants together is also about more than aesthetics. Knowing the perennials you should never plant together will help ...

Sun-loving plants are big and flashy, but that doesn't mean the shady spots in your garden and backyard can't look great, too. Many long-lived perennials love the shade! From flowers to ferns, shade ...

Firstly, asters are vigorous self-seeding flowers and any flowerheads left on the plant into late fall will be brown and tufty. Cutting back the perennials will stop the plant from dispersing seeds ...

And a carefully selected assortment of perennial flowers that attract bees ensures that your garden will remain bee-friendly ...

These perennials should be cut back in the fall to prevent infections from returning next year. Phlox are dazzling plants for ...

November weather and frosts, time change, elections, the holidays — this year it almost seems like impossible overload. Buy ...

When considering tulips, they interplant well with perennials. Their varied color palette can extend bloom periods ...

Let’s get started! Photo Credit: peganum / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 California has many native species of beardtongue flowers, which bloom in early spring with spectacular flowers that vary in color ...