Dividing herbaceous perennials in the fall is an easy way to create new plants for your garden. A herbaceous perennial overwinters as a fleshy underground mass that can be cut into smaller pieces to ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

As winter progresses, the foliage on most herbaceous perennial plants is dying back. Many are going dormant. We want our gardens to look well-kept even in winter. But what do we cut back now, what is ...

Depending upon the type of gardening you enjoy, August can be a month with fewer garden tasks and activities. If you tend a large vegetable garden, you are still busy with harvesting, doing battle ...

Plants are classified as annuals, biennials or perennials based on their life cycles. Biennials, like foxglove, have a vegetative year followed by a flowering year. Perennials, including woody shrubs ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Some of our plants need a little help to get ready for spring. Many herbaceous perennials, like lantana, look pretty dead right now. All they need to come back big and beautiful ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

A drought-tolerant garden doesn’t have to sacrifice beauty; many stunning flowers will thrive with little to no supplemental ...

If you are a lazy gardener, planting every year might feel like a little too much effort. That is where perennials can help, as they stick around for the long term. They live for at least two years, ...