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Learn how to grow hostas with this complete guide to varieties, planting, care, and stopping slugs for good. Everything you need for lush shade-garden foliage.
Slugs on hostas are beatable, but only a few methods actually work. Here is what controls them, what wastes your time, and the order to do it in.
Knowing when to cut back perennials in fall comes down to disease pressure, not tidiness. Cut peonies, bearded iris, hostas and bee balm — leave the rest standing until spring.
Lavender dying is almost never a cold problem — it's a drainage problem. Here's how to diagnose what killed yours and rebuild the site so the replacement lives.
Learn how to grow peonies that bloom for decades. Correct planting depth, honest staking advice, chill requirements, and the fall cleanup that prevents disease.
Learn how to prepare a perennial garden for winter species by species — which plants to cut back, which to leave standing, and when to mulch so crowns survive freeze-thaw.
The best low-maintenance perennials for beginners are the ones that survive neglect. These 10 plants handle poor soil, skipped watering, and a first-timer's honest mistakes.
The best tools for dividing perennials depend on root structure, not price. Here's how forks, knives and spades compare across fibrous, clumping and rhizomatous roots.
Perennial companion planting combinations that actually work, organised by season. Match conditions first, then stagger bloom times so the border never goes blank.
Learning how to grow coneflowers comes down to one counterintuitive rule: give them poor soil and full sun, then mostly leave them alone for the next decade.
The best perennials for shade, ranked by a nurseryman: 12 species that thrive without full sun, sorted by dry shade, moist shade and deep shade under trees.
The best perennials for pollinators aren't the showiest ones. These 10 native and adapted species feed bees and butterflies from April through hard frost.
The best perennial flower collections for beginners ship pre-matched, zone-appropriate plants with a planting map. Here are six starter collections worth your money and the two you should skip.
Twelve perennials that bloom all summer, with real bloom windows, spacing, and the deadheading schedule that keeps each one flowering from June until frost.
When to plant perennials, season by season, with the soil temperature thresholds and the six-week fall rule that decide whether a plant establishes or dies.
