Category: Plant of the month

The best garden plants are ones that look great for more than just the few weeks that they’re at their peak. While many summer-blooming perennials put on a lovely show...

Temperatures are dropping and the days are getting shorter, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t still enjoy some flowers in your landscape — you just have to choose the...

As the green of summer turns to the warmer shades of autumn, bright goldenrod is the perfect plant to bridge both worlds. These feathery yellow flowers bloom in late summer...

Sadly, most of the popular garden favorites have faded by late summer. Yet while daylilies and daisies are no longer blooming, asters and apples won’t appear for at least another...

For summer color, it’s hard to beat bright, beautiful daylily blooms in the garden. These hardy plants are a lot tougher than they look, and you might even see them...

There’s a lot to love about gardening when June is bustin’ out all over, and this is the time of year you have your choice of colors, forms and scents...

After a long, cold winter there’s something truly glorious about the way the world finally bursts into bloom in early May. Bulbs and flower are popping up everywhere, and the...

Few flowers are as cheerful as the yellow daffodil in mid-spring, and their unique shape trumpets the arrival of warmer weather like no other bloom can. Daffodils come in a...

Though the first day of spring is in March, the weather outside sometimes takes a few weeks to get the memo. While Southern gardens are in full swing, Zone 5...

February is usually a gray, dismal month in the garden, with many plants dead or dormant from the cold winter weather. Look a little more closely though, and you’ll notice...