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 ...

Choosing new plants is, in my opinion, the best part of planning a new border or container display. But before you begin sifting through catalogs or scrolling online stores, one of the key things you ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." As you're planning your garden this year—anticipating your beds brimming with perennials and plotting out ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shrub borders are my favorite kind of garden borders. They bring life, plant energy and structure to the garden all year ...

DENVER — The English invented the perennial border, but it has nothing to do with climate. It's just a way of grouping plants, including perennials, bulbs and shrubs. While my borders are in straight ...

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, ...

NO MATTER how much we love our gardens, most of us harbor a niggling wish to rip it all out and start over. How satisfying it would be to erase our mistakes, disappear our regrettable plants and ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. First I'm going to collect some seed off the purple orach. It's an annual, it's finished for the season ...