Regular deadheading will also help to extend the floral show. Echinacea live plants are available from Burpee. Planting one ...

An award-winning luxury urban landscape designer reveals the plants they always choose for unbeatable winter structure ...

Cutting back flowering perennials, annuals and bedding ... To do this, cut or pinch back plants by half. Sedum, rudbeckia, echinacea, helenium and golden rod will all respond well to this technique.

In the fall, the number of birds visiting your yard and garden may drop. During this season, when food is scarce, use these ...

This time of year, tons of free plants are waiting for you to claim them—and they’re sitting right in your own yard. It’s one small upside to fall yard cleanup: All those perennials you’ve ...

In fact, fall actually is an ideal time for adding new perennials and shrubs to your garden to add beauty, privacy, and pollinator-friendly plants. In the Southeast, the toughest growing season ...

As colder weather beckons, now is the time to save your plants, tackle your soil, harvest the last of your summer veg and ...

The cold acts as a natural curb on the spread of plant pests and diseases. Slugs are less active and fungal spores will be ...

Emma advises leaving the stems on more tender border perennials, such as penstemon and salvia, to protect them from the ...

Now that your vegetables and flowers have almost finished their growing cycle, it is time to think about saving seeds for next year. Saving seeds has several benefits. You can save money. You can ...

Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...