A beautiful cottage garden is filled with a variety of perennial plants. - Photos By R A Kearton/Getty Images If you're new to gardening, there may be quite a few plant terms you're not yet familiar ...

Baby, it's cold outside! If you can brave the chill, though, and plant up some perennials in January, you can give your ...

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Derek Markham is a green living expert who started writing for Treehugger in 2012. This slender spring beauty may be the most well-known perennial vegetable. As demonstrated by its high price in the ...

As the days lengthen and the sun grows stronger, many of us are champing at the bit to get our gardens started. Seed catalogues are being pored over, dog-eared, and circled, and some folks may have ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Last week, I published a story at NOVA Next about perennial crops ...

When I first started gardening more than 40 years ago, it made no sense to me why anyone would plant a flower that lived for just one summer when there were so-called “perennials” that came back year ...

Whether you have a garden or you're interested in starting one, you're likely familiar with the terms annual and perennial. Both are used to describe the growing cycle of plants, but knowing the ...