Purple firespike is a flowering shrub that boasts dramatic tubular purple flowers ideal for drawing hummingbirds and ...

Today’s column introduces guidelines for year-round gardening for herbaceous perennial plants that are native to a ...

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As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

Do you know the difference between an annual, biennial and perennial plant? If not, here's everything you need to know.

The salvias definitely fall into the latter category – reliable, not too showy or evocative, but dependable. There are so many types and varieties of salvia that, if so minded, it would be possible to ...

Some woody perennials are deciduous, meaning that they lose their leaves in the fall, but the stems and branches do not die in winter. Herbaceous perennial plants are those which survive cold ...

Sophie has a blue-flowering Salvia muirii from South Africa that has woody stems, which might suggest that it’s an evergreen shrub, but it’s actually a herbaceous perennial, which refers to ...

“Whole cluster in winemaking refers to a winemaker’s choice to not destem fruit, meaning that the stem, an herbaceous plant part of the vine which connects the fruit to the plant, is included ...

Foraging a few stems from flowering trees and shrubs is a wonderful way to bring spring indoors when dismal weather curtails outdoor gardening efforts.

Winter, the dormant season for most plants in the Chicago area, presents unique opportunities for restoration work targeting larger, woody invasive species at suburban forest preserves. The large ...

Then she and Myers ran a number of statistical tests to determine whether the presence of pawpaws influenced which woody and herbaceous plants species grew inside the patch, out of the overall ...