Sometimes gardening enthusiasts can be guilty of searching for the next great thing in the plant world, overlooking wonderful but common favorites in the process. One plant that would certainly make ...

About 20 years ago, the purple perennial wallflower became widely available and instantly popular because it was such a good garden flower, and still is. The first variety to arrive was 'Bowle's Mauve ...

ALTHOUGH I’D pretty much sworn off perennials, I’m smitten by wallflowers. They’re one of those very few plants that simplify rather than complicate your gardening life. Just plant a slew of them, and ...

Get outdoors this weekend and enjoy the carpets of crocuses and daffodils on display. Soon there will be tulips, too, and —­ loveliest of all — wallflowers. These are already budding in places and by ...

As I write I’m still penned in by cold weather and, when I held a gardening lunch last week, I had the embarrassing experience of showing John Massey of Ashwood Nurseries and Hugh Nunn of Harvington ...

Spring flowers are wonderful, but so many of them are short lived. The poet Robert Herrick wept to see daffodils ‘haste away so soon’. Tulips come and go in three weeks, but not wallflowers. Those ...

We all love pansies and violas in spring, but did you know there are a lot more cool-season annuals and tender perennials we can use in our seasonal containers? Because most trees and shrubs are not ...

Buy a perennial, plant it up, and for at least three years, you'll have good luck -- because that's the definition of a perennial, a plant that lives at least three years in the garden. So if your ...