Perennial Plants
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Best Lavender Plants in Garden Landscapes
Lavender herb plants are an aromatic and useful choice for cottage gardens, drought tolerant landscapes and other garden situations.
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Baptisia Plant Profile and Tips for Growing
False indigo, or wild indigo is a useful perennial plant for flowering gardens with attractive fall seed pods and late spring flowers.
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Delphinium Plant Profile and How to Grow Them
Delphinium flowers are some of the most readily recognized of the tall, vertically-growing perennials. See how to grow and maintain them in the garden.
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Russian Sage Plant Profile and Tips for Growing
Russian Sage is not related to the Salvia family of plants, but provides gardeners with an amazing flower display in dry conditions.
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Garden Perennials for Attracting Songbirds
Attracting birds to the garden landscape can be easy for gardeners who plant perennials that provide songbirds with a source of food.
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How to Grow Larkspur Plant Profile
The perennial larkspur plant is an easy and delightful thing for many landscapers and gardeners, adding old-fashioned charm to any bed or border.
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How to Grow Catmint Plant Profile
Catmint was originally grown as an herb for tea and to keep flying pests out of the garden. Now, many cultivars are highly ornamental.
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Growing and Caring for Rudbeckia Plant Profile
Rudbeckia, or black-eyed Susan, is a beautiful daisy-like flower that adds a beauty and splash of color to the summer garden for weeks.
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How to Grow Daylilies Plant Profile
Daylilies (Hemerocallis) are popular flowering perennials with dozens of blooms, each lasting only one day. Hardy plants and colorful blooms look great in the garden.
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How to Grow Creeping Phlox Plant Profile
Known for evergreen foliage color and a blanket of color in the spring, creeping phlox is a well-deserved favorite of garden borders, rock gardens and raised beds.
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Edible Flowers for Victory Garden Beauty
While many gardeners think of fruits and vegetables in their victory garden, many beautiful flowering plants have edible blossoms.
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How to Grow Viola Tricolor Johnny Jump-ups
Cool season flowers, these miniature pansy like blooms are a perennial favorite in cottage gardens world wide. See tips for how to grow Heartsease in the landscape.
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How to Divide Herbaceous Perennial Plants
Gardeners can share plants inexpensively or increase perennials in their landscapes, through division. How do you divide rhizomatic perennials?
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Winter Ground Covers and Vines
The garden landscape can seem bare during the winter but with these rambling or spreading perennial plants you can have year round interest.
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Plant Profile Goldenrod (Solidago)
Goldenrod is often thought to provoke allergies, but the goldenrod pollen does not bother allergies at all. All solidago species are attractive to native butterflies.
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Sweet Autumn Clematis Vine
Sweet autumn clematis is a deciduous perennial vine that takes center stage in the garden every fall with showers of white fragrant flowers.
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Monarda Plant Profile Growing Guide
Monarda didyma is highly attractive to hummingbirds, honeybees and butterflies, as well as providing weeks of colorful blooms each summer and early fall. Learn more!
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Plants with Silver Foliage
Plants with silver foliage blend well with other plants and add shining accents to a mixed border or flower bed. Use grey-leaved plants in moonlight gardens also.
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Plant Profile: Cranesbill Geranium
A favorite of English and Cottage Gardeners, the garden cranesbill is an excellent choice of flowering perennial for any garden situation. Here's how to care for them.
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Native Penstemon Plant Profile
Penstemon was once prized only in native or wild flower gardens but is now popular for water-wise xeriscapes, hummingbird and mixed border areas as it is very hardy.
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Wormwood (Artemisia) Plant Profile
Aromatic foliage, historical herbal uses and attractive silver foliage are all part of the lovely package wormwood plants bring to the garden and landscape.
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Memorial Day Themed Garden Plants
Creating a special garden in honor and memory of a loved one, wedding anniversary, child's birth or other special event is easy by selecting one of memorable plants.
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Perennials for Sandy Soil
Sandy soil can be difficult to deal with in the landscape. These perennials all thrive in sandy soil that drains water quickly and work well for tough garden areas.
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Perennial Plants for the New Year
See the best of the new perennial plants available to home gardeners in 2008. New colors, healthier plants and interesting flower forms can all be found.
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Echinacea Purpurea Plant Profile
Purple coneflowers or Echinaceas are fabulous perennial plants for use in a wide variety of gardening landscapes. See how to select and grow Echinacea plants.
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Contributing Articles in Perennial Plants
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Fall Perennials for a Splendid Array of Flowers
Solidago, Helenium and Rudbekia are some favorite fall perennials that give a splendid array of flowers. Brighten up Fall gardens with red and white favorite perennials.
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American Beautyberry
In a 545-acre park near Williamsburg, Virginia, American Beautyberry comes into fruit in late summer and the purple berries feed wildlife through the end of the year.
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Choosing and Caring for Summer Perennial Plants
Anemones, Delphiniums, Hollyhocks and Foxglove are just some of the very large and versatile range of summer flowering perennials available for temperate gardens.
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Bringing Plants Indoors for the Winter
Gardeners love to grow plants that will not survive the winter outside. Overwintering tender plants successfully takes a little preparation.
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How to Grow Edelweiss in North America
Beloved by Europeans, the flowering alpine plant edelweiss can be successfully grown and enjoyed in certain climates in the United States.
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Colorful New Year Gardens with Spring Perennials
Popular spring blooming perennials, such as Bergenia, Dicentra and Helleborus are long lasting plants, easy to care for, and makes for colorful New Year Gardens.
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Wisteria, a Climbing Vine with Exuberant Flowers
A vigorous climbing vine, with draping racemes of fragrant flowers, the Wisteria plant with its stunning blooms is ideal for garden entrances, porches and porticoes.
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Growing Herbs from Seed
Growing herbs from seed is a wonderful way to always have fresh herbs on hand.
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How to Plant and Care for a Bottlebrush Plant
Planting and caring for a bottlebrush (latin name: Callistemon) requires minimal upkeep but results in maximum floral beauty.
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The Hosta Plant Gives Lush Evergreen Foliage
Hostas or the Plantain Lily are shade loving plants with stunning multicolored foliage. Hostas are easy to grow and produce delicate lily-like flowers.
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Caring for Aster Flowers
Aster flowers can add color and style to any home garden with a little care and routine maintenance.
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Heucheras - the Most Colorful Foliage Plants
Heucheras come in more foliage colors than any other plant. In fact they come in almost every color but blue.
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The Red Ginger Plant Gives All Year Round Blooms
The Red Ginger plant is a spectacular focal plant in the garden and with its glossy green leaves and showy flowers is ideal for tropical flower arrangements.
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Caring for Alstroemeria Flowers
Alstroemeria flowers are easy-to-grow perennials which require only minimal care and routine maintenance to thrive in the garden for many years.
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How to Plant and Grow Freesias
A native to South Africa, freesias are a perennial single or double blooming favorite in many arrangements.
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Growing Blackberries on Purpose
Why would anyone deliberately cultivate blackberries, when they grow rampantly along the roadsides? Inviting these unruly plants into one's garden isn't just a wild idea.
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How to Grow Aquilegias From Seed
Columbine flowers are weird and wonderful additions to the herbaceous border. Aquilegias look exotic but they're incredibly easy to raise from seed - and are fully hardy.
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Growing Pacific Giant Delphiniums From Seed
Sowing seed is the cheapest way to grow this hardy blue, white and pink-flowered perennial in your garden. It'll keep coming back year after year!
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Edible Flowers and Leaves of Garlic Chives
Garlic chives are herbaceous perennials grown for their excellent flavor and attractiveness as garden specimens.
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Summer Flowers of the Red Bird of Paradise Plant
For vibrant summer flowers with a profusion of red and orange blossoms, the Red Bird of Paradise plant is truly the Peacock Flower of tropical gardens.
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Texas Gardening Aloe Vera
The gel from the aloe vera plant can be used as a salve for burns, cuts, and dry skin from eczema. Originally from Africa, the aloe can be grown indoors or out.
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Growing Echinacea Purpurea - the Coneflower
Herbal treatment or border beauty? It's hard to resist the beautiful coneflowers produced by echinacea. Here's how to raise it from seed and keep it in tip-top condition.
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How to Grow Rosemary Anywhere
With the current popularity of everything Italian, what better way to bring a breath of Tuscany to your home than with a fragrant pot of rosemary?
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Weed Control - Bindweed
Spreading weeds such as Convolvulus arvensis can take over the garden in a matter of weeks if not dealt with quickly. Here's how to get rid of it forever!
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Peony Roses for an Unrivaled Floral Display
From providing a glorious show of color in the spring garden to producing unsurpassed indoor fragrant cut flowers, the Peony Rose is a versatile perennial plant.
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