The best perennial plants for pots are ones that offer a long season of interest and are winter hardy, so you can rely on them to return again the following summer. Perennials work really well for ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — When selecting perennials for container gardening, it's important to choose plants that thrive well in confined spaces, maintain their beauty throughout the growing season, and ...

Perennials are a wonderful way to bring color to your garden year after year, whether it's a sprig of lavender or a cluster of chrysanthemums. However, for many, growing flowers and vegetables in ...

Gone are the days when people filled their front garden beds with flats of annual flowers to create a summer-long carpet of color. That’s just too expensive and too much work these days for all but ...

In simpler times, container gardening was small-scale landscaping using flowering annuals. Enjoy their color for one season and go with something new the next. But shifts toward food production and ...

When I first started gardening more than 40 years ago, it made no sense to me why anyone would plant a flower that lived for just one summer when there were so-called “perennials” that came back year ...

The short answer: It depends on the plant and the container.