While general advice is to prune most plants in late winter or early spring, these perennials will benefit from a quick trim ...

Even if your flowerbed receives only partial sun or no sun, you still can grow flowers that will put your neighbor’s garden ...

Choosing plants that can grow without direct sunlight is important when you're planning a lush shade garden. Explore this ...

Check out the best flowering (and in many cases, low-maintenance) perennials to plant in August because they bloom from fall ...

A shade garden is a green and contemplative refuge. It can also be a botanical calendar, with flowers signaling the change of seasons. Well-chosen perennials for shade provide texture and pattern ...

Many plants cannot tolerate the sun’s direct rays, even those whose labels claim a preference for direct sun. Many plants are ...

Before shopping for shade flowers, watch your garden at various times of day. Full shade is considered 3 or fewer hours of direct sunlight per day. Part shade is about three to six hours of shade.

Start with omphalodes, which some people think of as a perennial forget-me-not, its star-shaped azure blue flowers floating above ovate to heart-shaped verdant green foliage. It forms a clump 6 to ...

Fall is an ideal time for planting flowering perennials, and we could write a long list of reasons why you should think about adding some to your garden. First, perennials don’t have to be ...

If they are labeled as shade plants, they need at least four hours of early morning or evening light – no direct mid-day sun.” Some popular flowers of the sun type are pansies, violas ...

Our state flower comes in a variety of colors and heights, and greatly prefers shade over sun. They will spread through seeds, so you may find them popping up the following year where you least ...