Depending upon the type of gardening you enjoy, August can be a month with fewer garden tasks and activities. If you tend a large vegetable garden, you are still busy with harvesting, doing battle ...

Dividing herbaceous perennials in the fall is an easy way to create new plants for your garden. A herbaceous perennial overwinters as a fleshy underground mass that can be cut into smaller pieces to ...

Our most recent column addressed the planning of a year-round garden, including designing landscape basics and searching for (mostly) California native plants. Today’s column introduces guidelines for ...

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 ...

We love perennials because every year they seem to grow richer, fuller and more lovely. But they do require just a little bit of love in the late winter or early spring in order to look their best in ...

We want our gardens to look well-kept even in winter. But what do we cut back now, what is the best way to trim and what should we save for later? As winter progresses, the foliage on most herbaceous ...

Perennial plants are those that go dormant in winter and re-grow the following season. Herbaceous perennials refer to non-woody plants such as shrubs and trees, which are also perennial plants. August ...

Our most recent column addressed the planning of a year-round garden, including designing landscape basics and searching for (mostly) California native plants. To review that column, browse ...