When a new perennial border is proposed, the first task is to evaluate the site thoroughly. What is the light like? How good is the soil? Will the new border integrate well with existing landscape ...

DENVER — The perennial border is an English invention to group and display perennial plants. It can be adapted to almost any climate and works beautifully here. A perennial border can be straight or ...

Choosing new plants is, in my opinion, the best part of planning a new border or container display. But before you begin sifting through catalogs or scrolling online stores, one of the key things you ...

It’s showtime in the perennial flower border. The Oriental poppies, pink and blue pincushion flowers, bleeding hearts and hardy geraniums are vying for center stage and each plant is striving to be ...

Shrub borders are my favorite kind of garden borders. They bring life, plant energy and structure to the garden all year ...

A garden flourishes when it has both annual flowers and perennial flowers. Annuals give you a chance to grow plants outside your hardiness zone, to experiment with different plants, and to put in some ...

DENVER — The English invented the perennial border, but it has nothing to do with climate. It's just a way of grouping plants, including perennials, bulbs and shrubs. While my borders are in straight ...

NO MATTER how much we love our gardens, most of us harbor a niggling wish to rip it all out and start over. How satisfying it would be to erase our mistakes, disappear our regrettable plants and ...

Last fall I traveled to Ireland and while there visited both Powerscourt and Loughcrew, both famous public gardens, not far from Dublin, that attract many visitors every year. From first appearance, ...