Late every summer, I’m amazed at how different my flower garden looks than it did in the spring. While I grow many perennials that produce beautiful blooms, the show-stoppers in my garden are often ...

Mexican Sunflower – Tithonia rotundifolia, is a member of the daisy or aster family. This summer annual can grow up to six feet tall or higher in one season. Native to Mexico and Central America, it ...

Question: A friend gave me several Mexican sunflower cuttings and said to stick them in the ground. Does this work? Answer: You hear stories about sticking stems in the ground and having them root, ...

Maureen Pierson, a master gardener from rural New London, reports that she considers her garden a success when she can attract a variety of pollinators. She prefers native plants. This year she found ...

Heat-tolerant plants like zinnias, sunflowers, King’s Mantle, Crinums, and perennial salvias thrive in high temperatures. Torenia (Wishbone Flower), sweet alyssum, Euphorbia ‘Diamond Frost,’ and ...

Everyone knows that gold is king of fall colors in Colorado. Nothing says autumn like a splash of sunny lemon, just like the hillsides covered with aspen leaves quaking in the breeze. In my yard, the ...

For perennials, the first year, they sleep. The second year they creep and the third year they leap. That span covers the amount of time that’s passed for the Perennial Plant Association’s national ...