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On Gardening: Pink fountain gaura offers unbeatable texture for the perennial...

By combining in close plantings with other perennials like rudbeckias, coreopsis, and blue salvias, you can create some wonderful if not dreamy partnerships.

Gardeners rescue, reuse orphaned plants

The gardeners rescue mostly perennials, and only plants that are small enough to be dug easily and potted.

Neil Sperry: Mix it up with perennial plantings in spring

Perennials don't always flower on the same schedules year after year, so you can be left with a bed of primarily blues, purples and pinks -- and with one bold yellow flower sticking out in the...

Diggin' In: Starting plants from seed

What she grows is adaptable to most gardening regions nationwide - as annuals or perennials, depending on your cold hardiness zone.

The best exotic non-marigolds

Also of interest for perennial plant lovers at Plant Delights are the new red Valentine bleeding hearts and native Indian Pink, with its striking red and yellow blooms.

Perennial Diva recommends adding show stoppers to the garden

She's also an author of "The Perennial Gardener's Design Primer" and "Fallscaping."

On Gardening: Snowflakes a showy harbinger of spring

Use in partnership with shrubs like the flowering quince, forsythia and blue phlox - Phlox divaricata - one of my favorite perennials.

Diggin' In: Gardening resolutions for 2013

Keep a garden journal so I remember when I did tasks like sowing seeds, cutting back perennials and adding soil amendments.

Home Style: Alternative plants; portioned plates; painting Styrofoam

"The book offers 255 alternatives for trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, grasses and ground covers.

On Gardening: Goldilocks is the ultimate spiller plant

This Lysimachia is native to Europe and is perennial from zones 3 through 11.

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a rose-lover's retirement project in Orangevale

To attract diverse beneficial insects, he incorporated more than 800 varieties of perennials,...

Durable Delights: Dwarf Russian sage

Snapshot: Able to thrive in the most harsh environments, dwarf Russian sage is a deciduous...

Rhubarb not just for pies

Also known as "pieplant," rhubarb is a perennial that is native to central and northern Asia,...