These flowers will thrive in sunny gardens and will come back year after year with bright, colorful, easy-to-care-for blooms.

Do you know the difference between an annual, biennial and perennial plant? If not, here's everything you need to know.

Sun-loving blanket flowers are a beloved native wildflower abuzz with butterflies and native bees. Flowering spring through ...

I’ve moved around a lot, and so have gardened in all sorts of settings. From a small, sun-trapped balcony in east London to a ...

Some of the best dried flowers are strawflowers, celosia, statice, baby’s breath, lavender, amaranth, roses, and hydrangeas.

Besides mums, the chop can be done for most late-blooming perennials, such as sedum, goldenrod, aster, helenium, perennial sunflowers, Montauk daisies, Russian sage, and boltonia.

Asters are a triple threat—they're fast-growing, long-lasting, and self-seeding. They produce an abundance of bright, joyful flowers which will fill out your containers in no time. Asters do best in ...

The common name daisy is derived from the Old English term "dægesege," which translates to "day's eye," or "eye of the day." The name suggests a daisy looks like the sun with its rays shining out in ...

When you're looking for a garden full of blooms from spring to fall, you'll need to choose carefully. Look for reblooming and ...

Summer has officially arrived along with its heat and humidity. Exercise care as you do life day in and day out to minimize ...

There are around 120 native species of asters in North America, including varieties with white, pink, and purple flowers and plants that tolerate sun, light shade, and damp or dry soil.

Removing spent blooms from your garden flowers can be tedious work. Pinching or pruning dead flowers is not just a matter of ...