Annual comes from the Latin meaning “pertaining to a year.” These plants live their whole lives within a year, and often just a season. Our traditional garden flowers, such as pansies, petunias, and ...

Ever wondered why some of your plants die after one season while others come back year after year? If you’ve pondered that, you’ve likely noticed the difference between two categories of plants: ...

The blossoms of few plants – if any – are as alluring to butterflies and hummingbirds as those of pentas (P. lanceolata), a bushy, evergreen perennial. Indeed, even diehard native plant enthusiasts ...

When Floridians say "perennials," they mean herbaceous (non-woody) plants that live for a minimum of several years. And while all herbaceous plants in Northern states die to the ground each winter and ...