Fill your garden with colour using hardy, long-blooming perennials that flower for months with minimal effort.

April through early May is a great time to plant perennials, those non-woody flowering plants that come back year after year.

Glory in every new daily sign of spring. I have daffodil leaves up. Primrose and hyacinth leaves have emerged from the mulch.

In the summer of 1814, as British forces advanced on Washington, DC, during the War of 1812, a clerk at the Department of ...

Edge beds: Laying out a hose around your garden beds helps to visualize pleasing curved edges around beds. Then make clean ...

While pruning is needed for a number of plants in the spring period, there are also a few you can get if you want an easier option ...

By Steve Flairty NKyTribune columnist Being one who enjoys gardening, I’m excited that spring is here. Soon I’ll be sowing my wildflowers seeds and am already seeing the fruits of other seasons sowed, ...

The shade garden offers a completely different vibe from the sunny rose beds. Here, hostas with leaves the size of dinner plates create a lush, tropical feeling that seems impossible for Connecticut.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Many gardeners choose perennials not only for their looks, but because they can save time and money.

APRIL FOOL’S DAY is Wednesday, but don’t be a fool! As always, I knew it would happen. It always does every year. As I walk into the store, I see cool-sensitive plants in front of me for sale. Why?

Woodward Park’s Daffodil Hill was in full bloom when our photographer Michelle Pollard and I met Andy Fusco, who took on the ...

As noted in our previous column, we have recently neglected our 24-year-old greenhouse and have had to remove accumulated ...