For all your cutting tools, ensure blades are sharp and ... and no-nonsense guides to the health and wellness questions you want answered. Perennial mallows, with their silky blooms, are well-favoured ...

However, all is not lost, as some perennials can be trimmed in August to encourage one last flush of late flowers to enjoy. Whether or not cutting back this month means fall flowers will depend on ...

As fall envelops the garden, many a gardener's thoughts turn to preparing for winter and cutting back perennials that may now ...

Cutting back flowering perennials, annuals and bedding plants can help to improve and prolong flowering and the shape of a plant. It’s not just trees and shrubs that need pruning. Flowering ...

Lily turf (Liriope muscari) is a particularly useful shade-loving perennial for providing long-lasting ground cover. The evergreen foliage is topped with purple flower spikes in autumn, while many ...

Marking the end of spring May is the ideal time to tend to perennials that are finishing flowering and plants that need pruning back to bloom better for the remainder of the year. To ready your garden ...

If a perennial you've bought is flowering at the time of planting, cutting off its flowers could help to boost its future potential. It might seem drastic, but doing this will allow more of the ...

A rhizomatous perennial that bears yellow daisy-shaped flowerheads in late summer. With central green discs and drooping yellow petals they are held on tall wiry stems above deeply-divided foliage ...