When a new perennial border is proposed, the first task is to evaluate the site thoroughly. What is the light like? How good is the soil? Will the new border integrate well with existing landscape ...

Last year, I performed a radical act in my garden: I decommissioned the vegetable beds. That's right -- I knocked down the cover crops, raked off the square edges and neat rows of beds, and envisioned ...

Gardeners often spend a lot of time deciding where to plant perennials, considering things like color, shape, and texture. Knowing the mature height of your perennials is key to choosing the best ...

DENVER — The perennial border is an English invention to group and display perennial plants. It can be adapted to almost any climate and works beautifully here. A perennial border can be straight or ...

If only those lush mixed perennial garden borders we admire in magazines were as simple as “paint by numbers.” Mixed border design can frustrate even the most seasoned gardeners. The blending of ...

Last fall I traveled to Ireland and while there visited both Powerscourt and Loughcrew, both famous public gardens, not far from Dublin, that attract many visitors every year. From first appearance, ...

It’s showtime in the perennial flower border. The Oriental poppies, pink and blue pincushion flowers, bleeding hearts and hardy geraniums are vying for center stage and each plant is striving to be ...

Perennials are the stalwarts of flower beds. These reliable plants perform year after year, filling gardens with colorful blooms and interesting foliage and attracting pollinators to their nectar-rich ...

New England is noted for its beautiful perennial borders. I had the wonderful opportunity a few years ago of visiting gardens in Maine at the peak season of flowers. The lush perennial borders were ...