Late every summer, I’m amazed at how different my flower garden looks than it did in the spring. While I grow many perennials that produce beautiful blooms, the show-stoppers in my garden are often ...

Welcome shorter days and longer nights with colorful late blooming fall perennials that light up your flower garden.

Mexican Sunflower – Tithonia rotundifolia, is a member of the daisy or aster family. This summer annual can grow up to six feet tall or higher in one season. Native to Mexico and Central America, it ...

Heat-tolerant plants like zinnias, sunflowers, King’s Mantle, Crinums, and perennial salvias thrive in high temperatures. Torenia (Wishbone Flower), sweet alyssum, Euphorbia ‘Diamond Frost,’ and ...

• Seed one crop, then two weeks later seed another close by. Plants will mature at different times, extending your garden’s overall bloom period. • Plant sunflowers to attract pollinators to your ...

For perennials, the first year, they sleep. The second year they creep and the third year they leap. That span covers the amount of time that’s passed for the Perennial Plant Association’s national ...