If you're already dreaming about a garden filled with flowers after winter is over, there's one striking plant you'll want to ...

Discover a selection of flowers to sow in December that will give you earlier blooms next year, along with expert sowing tips ...

Fall weather can offer surprisingly helpful conditions for coneflowers, giving gardeners a chance to start seeds earlier and ...

Growing perennials from seed during the summer is a practical way to fill your flower beds. All will be ready to bloom next year. These are the more-or-less permanent plants often regarded as the ...

Native seeds might be just the thing for those who are too busy to plant a garden on a schedule and don’t have a sprinkler system on a timer – or who didn’t have the money to buy dozens of potted ...

Complaining to other gardeners about winter inactivity may be somewhat therapeutic, but not nearly as much fun as planting perennial seeds right now. Why sow perennial seeds so early in the year?

Fall is the time when Mother Nature drops seeds, and it’s a good time for you to plant them, too, says Mayo Underwood, owner of Underwood Gardens in Woodstock. Sow about 20 seeds of any perennial ...

Who thinks of planting flower seeds this time of year? Not many gardeners. Yet now is an ideal time to plant perennial flower seeds. They'll only grow leaves and stems this year — but next year and in ...

Jack asks: I read your plant of the month article for March about perennial peanut. I couldn’t find plants anywhere but found seeds at Farm and Garden. I am worried that chickens and other birds that ...