Perennials

Whether you use them as screens, accents, or focal points, let ornamental grasses play a role in your garden or landscape.

Enjoy these ultra-easy, low-water plants in your garden.

Turn a wet, poorly drained spot in your yard into a colorful landscape feature with these perennial flowers and ornamental grasses.

Brighten your home, as well as your garden, with these cut-and-come-back perennial flowers.

Brighten up shady spots in your landscape with these easy-to-grow plants that come back year after year.

Every year a group of plant breeders, nurserymen, and garden writers select a top-performing perennial as Perennial of the Year. Here a...

Trough gardens are a great way to grow small drought-tolerant perennials, succulents, and alpine plants. Here are some of the best.

Create a living privacy screen, hide an ugly fence, or add a beautiful garden backdrop with these extra-tall plants.

You'll find beauty in tough plants that require no pampering with these low-maintenance picks from the garden editors at Better Homes a...

Add early season cheer to shady spots in your landscape with these easy-to-grow woodland flowers.

View some of the best reblooming iris varieties and learn about growing these season-extending flowers.

These brand-new varieties offer exciting colors, more flowers, and other features so you can enjoy your best perennial garden ever.

Our readers grow a stunning array of beautiful flowers in their gardens. Here is a photographic sampling of their handiwork.

Bursting with color and brimming with personality, these new blooming beauties are sure to get a few jealous looks from their fellow fl...

Tired of mowing your parking strip? Trade your turf for native plants -- easy-care beauties guaranteed to welcome wildlife and wow the ...

Count on these perennials to create a big bang in your landscape with their extra-long flowering season.

Here's a collection of easy-growing perennial flowers that are perfect for any garden -- especially if you're a beginner!

Purple coneflower is one of the toughest, most reliable perennials on the market. Today, though, they come in more than just purple. He...

Clay soil makes gardening tough. It's slippery when wet, and it bakes solid when dry. Here are 25 beautiful plants that grow well in cl...

Add romance to your garden or landscape with peonies. Here are some of our favorite varieties.

Let easy-growing groundcovers be the solution to your landscaping problems. Here are some of the best groundcovers for your yard.

There's an amazing number of hostas available in different sizes, shapes, and colors. Discover which will look best in your yard.

Salvias, also called sages, are easy to grow, bloom abundantly, and great looking in the landscape. Use this guide to find the best typ...

Few perennials offer the versatility of daylilies. We've pulled together a gallery of great, easy-to-grow daylily varieties to help you...

We've pulled together a gallery of some of our favorite plants that rabbits avoid in our gardens.

Fill your garden -- or surround your patio -- with the bold textures, eye-popping colors, and intoxicating scents of the tropics.

We'll show you some of the easiest, longest-lived perennials to grow in your region. Click through to find your area.

When summer heat kicks in, rely on these drought-tolerant plants to hold their own -- and still look beautiful.

Create a showstopping display of color from spring to fall with these easy-care flowers that are adapted to tough, seaside conditions.

Clay soil makes gardening tough. It's slippery when wet, and it bakes solid when dry. Here are 25 beautiful plants that grow well in cl...

Fill your garden with jewel-tone shades at the end of the season with these perfect fall-blooming plants.

Give your garden four seasons of interest with low-maintenance grasses. Here are some of the best varieties.

Celebrate the fall season with perennials that develop stunning fall foliage at season's end.

Here's how to use mums in your garden.

Give your garden four seasons of interest with low-maintenance grasses.