September is an ideal time to plant perennials in many gardens. For most of us, this is the end of summer and the start of fall. We can expect plenty of warm days still, but the cold days and the ...

While many spring-blooming plants go in the ground as seeds or bulbs in fall, you can transplant many potted perennials as late as June for blooms all summer.

Penstemon, also known as beardtongue (because one of its five stamens is infertile and looks different than the others, resembling a hairy tongue surrounded by a lip-shaped flower), is a perennial ...

When I moved to Grass Valley in 1992, I bought a house, which was surrounded by two acres of old overgrown manzanita. A fire trap to be sure. After hiring a brush-clearing firm, I was left with an ...