If you’re a fan of purple flowers, you know how much they can elevate a garden with their rich, vibrant hues. Purple blooms ...

Perennials are excellent plants for adding color to your garden in spring and summer, but many of them tend to fade just ...

Are you sad at the sight of fading blooms at the end of summer? Plant any of these flowering shrubs, and you'll keep your yard colorful well into fall.

There is almost no flower in the Southern Mountains deeper in purple color than the ironflowers (Vernonia spp.) blooming now ...

This purple flower will come back year after year to spread throughout your backyard rock and woodland gardens, adding pops ...

Fall asters are long-lived perennials. The plants die to the ground soon after they finish blooming. Trim the spent stems back to within 2 or 3 inches of the soil to mark where they’re planted and ...

Dear Master Gardener: The leaves of my spider plant are a sickly pale green. I have it near a south window. Is it getting too much light? Answer: There are several reasons why a spider plant loses its ...

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