Whether you're new to gardening or have been in the game for years, you should know these two important perennials that can completely transform your landscape.

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 ...

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. Perhaps the most ...

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. Unlike herbaceous perennial plants ...

As we enter autumn, the transition from summer to winter, gardeners should plan on cutting back their spent perennials. This column focuses on seasonal pruning of herbaceous shrubs, with a review of ...

Premise of research. The transition from herbaceous annual to woody perennial has occurred numerous times during angiosperm evolution, but the suite of genetic changes that accompanies this life ...

We want our gardens to look well-kept even in winter. But what do we cut back now, what is the best way to trim and what should we save for later? As winter progresses, the foliage on most herbaceous ...