Each spring, tall, lush spires of brightly colored lupine blooms appear and last through the summer, feeding wildlife and endearing passersby across North America. Whether they’re annual species like ...

Now is a good time of year to think "perennial": which plants really are, and which ones could be. The word perennial, among gardeners, usually refers to an herbaceous (non-woody) flowering plant — ...

The false lupine ( Thermopsis chinensis) is one of the earliest sunny perennials to flower in the spring. The pealike flowers resemble those of false indigo and true lupines. Butterflies are attracted ...

Add some altitude to your garden with these pollinator-favorite tall perennial flowers! Choose from coneflower, blazing star, ...

If your land has been charred, saturated, salinified, dehydrated, liquified, bulldozed and frozen by extreme weather, you may need to revegetate. The sooner it is stabilized with living things, the ...

My neighbor has the most beautiful blue lupine growing in a healthy clump in his front yard. It's been blooming for a couple of weeks and shows no sign of slowing down any time soon. In England, the ...

Plants are classified as annuals, biennials or perennials based on their life cycles. Biennials, like foxglove, have a vegetative year followed by a flowering year. Perennials, including woody shrubs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whenever I wander around garden centers, I try to listen to what shoppers are saying as they select plants to take home. I learn a ...