If you want to attract pollinators but struggle with plants dying in the heat, this purple perennial is the perfect solution.

"Today’s column introduces guidelines for year-round gardening for herbaceous perennial plants that are native to a ...

Such perennial crops could be harvested for multiple years without the need to cultivate the soil. By maintaining root systems year-round, there would be less soil erosion, more soil carbon and less ...

Looking for a plant to help you fill those tough to manage spots in the drier and shadier parts of the garden? Here are three ...

Perennial vegetables are exotic and tasty and also take less work than putting in annual crops By Deborah K. Rich , Special to The Chronicle Nov 24, 2007 Occidental Arts and Ecology Cent ...

Bare-root perennials like to get in the ground in the early spring, but you can transplant potted plants later in the spring. If you’re adding frost-sensitive crops or live in a cooler growing zone, ...

Additionally, perennial crops like Kernza, the grain developed by The Land Institute, provide habitat for ground-nesting birds and other animals. “A vegetated landscape is going to accommodate species ...

As far as perennial crops go—that is, trying to make a perennial staple crop such as wheat or an oilseed such as sunflower—the answer is no.

Now that our summers are trending hotter for longer, leaning toward perennials that can tolerate heat makes sense in garden ...

Perennial crops, on the other hand, are sown, harvested from, and allowed to continue growing year after year. Because the soil sustaining them remains undisturbed, ...

But if more perennial crops existed, he said, they could break the food system’s dependency on annual crops and transform farms into something more akin to a natural ecosystem, like a forest.