These low-maintenance outdoor plants are hardy and even the toughest garden spaces can't kill them. They can survive harsh weather, poor soil, and drought.

Garden with a variety of plants in gravel and stone - Alona Krytska/Getty Images If you're looking to create areas in your yard that look great, are unique, and don't require a lot of upkeep, consider ...

Perennial flowers may be expensive but are well worth the investment. Summer perennials come back year after year, and many are low-maintenance, easy-care plants. Moreover, the perennials you'll find ...

With temperatures heating up, gardeners are looking for plants that can take the heat. With a name like Ice Plant, you may think it likes it cold, but you would be wrong. Ice plant is the common name ...

Having a garden that's in bloom year-round is the dream -- if only it were simple to accomplish. While you could certainly pop seasonal annuals in the beds, the cost and the effort quickly add up. To ...

When the weather gets cold, it nips our noses, numbs our toes and makes us shiver. What does it do to our plants? “Cold damages plants because it freezes water into ice,” said Spencer Campbell, Plant ...

When I first started gardening more than 40 years ago, it made no sense to me why anyone would plant a flower that lived for just one summer when there were so-called “perennials” that came back year ...

Brand new, never-before-identified species of garden perennials are rare, as botanists have likely discovered most of the botanical plant types that will thrive in perennial gardens. But breeders have ...

A super long-blooming native Joe-Pye eupatorium, a new pink-bloomer that’s a hummingbird magnet, and four new perennial ...