A perennial plant lives more than two years and repeats its reproduction cycle over and over again: grow, flower, produce ...

coneflower, and gaillardia. You can also use this time to divide perennial vegetables like artichokes and horseradish. When in doubt about whether a plant should be divided, take a moment and look ...

The summer chorus of herbaceous perennials lights up our flower beds with swathes of color, texture, and life, as pollinators ...

The Perennial Plant Association has named the purple coneflower cultivar ‘Magnus’ as the perennial plant of the year for 1998. Known botanically as Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus,’ this cultivar and ...

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

“Viracocha” Daylillies in bloom. The easiest way to divide a perennial like day lily with entangled roots is to dig and lift the entire clump from the soil. Next use a small saw -- like the ...

The time you take now will be appreciated by the plants in your garden and will add to your enjoyment come spring.

What do a human, a rose, and a bacterium have in common? Each of these things — along with every other organism on Earth — contains the molecular instructions for life, called deoxyribonucleic ...

Among them are astilbe, bleeding heart, butterfly weed, cone flower, hosta, perennial aster, Shasta daisy and yarrow. When transplanting perennials in the fall, cut back top growth to within about ...

In Iowa they call it “black gold” – a fertile blanket covering the landlocked Midwestern state. Thousands of years of prairie grass growth, death and decomposition have left a thick layer of ...

An algorithm is a list of rules to follow in order to complete a task or solve a problem. The steps in an algorithm need to be in the right order. Think about an algorithm for getting dressed in ...