A Way To Garden

annuals & perennials

What’s an annual? Well, anything you use seasonally for “color” or drama, whether it’s technically an annual or not. Find my favorites here, along with the perennials I rely on in my 35-year-old garden.

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flowers that stand up to the heat, and growing lavender, with jenny rose carey

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surprising native annuals (and how to find your region’s), with alan branhagen

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eastern native annuals, with uli lorimer

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gravel gardens, with jeff epping of olbrich botanical gardens

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carnivorous ‘houseplants,’ with kenny coogan

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trilliums in trouble, with mt. cuba’s amy highland

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plants of merit, with missouri botanical’s daria mckelvey

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abuzz with gorgeous umbels, with sam keitch of pennsylvania horticultural society

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tips for the shade gardener, from ken druse

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time to try some crinum lilies? designer and author jenks farmer thinks so.

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monocots: a geeky theme for collecting plants and designing gardens, with ken druse

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why and when to divide perennials, with ken druse (and tales of his latest flood)

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dividing and editing perennials, with wethersfield’s toshi yano

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how texture and variegation beat august’s garden lull, with ken druse

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native ferns and how to propagate them, with uli lorimer

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‘best friend’ tropical plants, with marianne willburn

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treasure hunting in the garden, with ken druse

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trillium time, with native plant trust’s uli lorimer

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flower-garden favorites, with helen o’donnell of bunker farm plants

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which echinacea perform best? with sam hoadley of mt. cuba center

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botanical treasures at far reaches farm nursery, with kelly dodson

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making the switch to native groundcovers, with duncan himmelman of mt. cuba

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groundcovers: out with the old, in with the natives, with ken druse

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dennis schrader’s tips for overwintering tender plants