Woman digging in a raised garden bed in winter, preparing for spring. - Natalia Savilova/Shutterstock In the heart of winter, your yard may be draped in shades of gray and white, but January is the ...

The start of the year is a perfect time for garden planning. When the conditions outside may be far from desirable (which is common for many of us in January) grasp the opportunity to come up with new ...

Astrantia is an easy-growing, long-flowering perennial with clusters of dainty flowers above clumps of maple-like foliage. Dear Helen: I have a long perennial bed that needs a roster of new ...

Maybe it's an aging thing, this disenchantment with ostentatious beauty, but humbler flowers increasingly look better all the time. Handsome is precisely as handsome does, which is what makes ...

Dear Helen: My masterworts (Astrantia), which are located in four different areas of the garden, all failed to bloom this year. Other perennials that have grown in their same places for several years ...