How To Cut Back Perennials
Here are the when's and how's of cutting back perennials for great garden performance and maintenance
Flower Gardening Techniques for Perennials
I can hardly imagine flower gardening without perennial flowers as the mainstay of the gardening mix. Spikes of delphiniums, daisies galore, lavender for fragrance, daylilies for their ephemeral nature, Kniphofia for esoterica, and lots and lots of Nepeta and Monarda. There’s simply too many good perennials to ignore in the flower garden. There’s two important tips I’ll pass along right now that will make your job a lot easier:
Echinacea 'Fatal Attraction'
Transplanting Perennials
What you need to know (and might want to ask) about transplanting perennials in your flower garden
Germinating Perennial Seed
How to germinate and start your own perennial seed - there are many plants you can only get from seed so this is a good thing to know how to do
Dividing Perennials
Knowing how to divide perennials is a basic skill in gardening for plant health, flowering, and increasing the numbers of plants in your garden
Perennial Plugs
Perennial plugs are a special way to get starter plants in your garden. Most often used by commercial growers, if you can find them for sale, you can drastically decrease your plant costs (but you need to buy quite a few)
Plant Cuttings
Taking plant cuttings is the traditional and preferred method of propagating most perennials - here's the cheap and easy way to take cuttings.
How To Plant Perennials
Proper planting of perennial flowers will make or break the garden. Here are the things to understand for great plant survival.
Moving Perennials
Some times you want to move perennials inside your garden and sometimes you want to take them with you. Here's how.
Digging Video - for all kinds of garden-making
Transplant Container Perennials
Transplanting container perennial plants - here are the things you want to know
4 Tips for Shade Success
Transplanting container perennial plants - here are the things you want to know
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How To Grow Bunny Grass I have something called Bunny Grass. This is the first year of last years fall planting. How big will it get and does it transplant well if I need to move ...
overwintering perennials in raised flower box I live in northwestern Montana. Will my perennials make it through the winter in a raised flower bed made of wood without additional insulation against ...
Staking Perennials I think I need some help with staking my perennials. My Shasta Daisies were planted last fall and now are so tall that they are falling over on to my ...
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What can I do to keep weeds from growing between the rhizomes of my iris? It's a pain every year to weed them.
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Preparing the perennial bed for winter
This is my first year with my inherited perennial garden. What should I do before winter comes? Cut it down? Cover it in leaves? Leave it alone?
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Concrete in soil
I have a nice area along my house for flowers but it was used by builders to wash out the concrete tools. How can I make it usable again?
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Starting a Perennial Garden I want to start a perennial garden in sun and part shade, in Zone 4. I am a beginner gardener (just retired), and would like to have continuous bloom ...
Watering perennials in the hotest part of summer
What is the best rule of thumb for watering perennials that like full sun in the middle of summer? I am having a hard time keeping them looking good.
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We don't get much moisture here in North Central TX in the winter -none in over 30 days now. Should I try to water?
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