There are three main types of peonies on the market: herbaceous, woody, and Itoh/intersectional peonies. Requiring a chilling period to thrive and bloom, most are zoned for USDA hardiness Zones 3 ...

Picture a stem in your mind’s eye. It’s probably lengthy, tapering, fairly straight and either woody or herbaceous. But plenty of plants have stems that don’t conform to that image.

Unlike herbaceous perennial plants that die back to the ground each winter, subshrubs maintain a woody framework of branches from which new growth emerges in spring. These basically, are small shrubs.

Clematis can be intimidating. Even the most adventurous gardeners can lose their nerve, baffled by pruning requirements or terrified by the fragility of the young stems - not to mention the threat ...

Propagating woody plants is pleasant and profitable–and less of a challenge than one may think. Cuttings from established plants can easily become sturdy new, cost-free shrubs to fill in bare… ...

They can be herbaceous, woody or evergreen. Herbaceous plants die back to the ground and grow the next year, if they are perennial. Woody plants have a woody stem that persists during winter.

With stem cuttings, the cutting is cut from the parent plant and then forms roots. Layering has some advantages over cuttings. ... Layering can be done on herbaceous or woody plants.

Botanists have identified 157 vines in Arkansas, with 62 considered woody and 95 nonwoody or herbaceous. Of those 157 vines, 43 are non-native and 16 have been identified as species of concern.