If you’re searching for a low-maintenance, eco-friendly alternative to traditional grass lawns, perennials (most often ...

Hello, Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! The dry weather continues here in the Valley. I hope we receive the rain which is in the forecast for the weekend. Water needs for our field crops, ...

Sedum (also known as stonecrop) is a hardy succulent that brightens yards and gardens with its star-shaped flowers in vivid burgundy, copper, pink, or white. While growing and caring for sedum is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If you’re ever visiting Denver Botanic Gardens and spot a horticulturist with a ZZ Top beard and a straw hat, it’s probably Mike Bone, curator of Steppe ...

Sometimes a name says it all. Nowhere is this more evident than with the fall-blooming succulent sedum 'Autumn Joy.' This vigorous deciduous perennial features large (up to 5 inches) bluish-green ...

Perennials for cool season containers may seem like the proverbial horticultural oxymoron, but that is exactly what I have been planting the last few days in my zone 8a landscape. My favorite pansy ...

Chilly. Rainy. Downright Seattle-esque. This unseasonably gray spring has a lot of Coloradans pouting and their gardens’ best displays delayed. But if you have a garden that’s already full of sedums?

Perennial flowers may be expensive but are well worth the investment. Summer perennials come back year after year, and many are low-maintenance, easy-care plants. Moreover, the perennials you'll find ...

When I first started gardening more than 40 years ago, it made no sense to me why anyone would plant a flower that lived for just one summer when there were so-called “perennials” that came back year ...

With this dangerously hot weather we are experiencing, and the drought we are all suffering from, there is one genus of plants out there that is reveling in our misery. Those plants are the sedums.