Keeping up appearances is difficult in the late autumn garden. Summer-flowering perennials have been cut back hard, vestiges of September's bright glories lie around in formless heaps and even tardy ...

Trying to choose the best types of sedums for sustainable gardening is enough to make you feel like a kid in a candy shop. Whether sprawled like carpets of color amidst rocks or bobbling delicately ...

Combinations that peak in late September and October, when John Keats’s season of “mists and mellow fruitfulness” is providing dewy mornings and gauzy light, are an excellent idea. This trio of plants ...

One week, Chris Hansen is on the West Coast, visiting places like Terra Nova Nurseries, a major breeder of cold-hardy perennials. There, he may discover something exotic like Purple Emperor Sedum with ...