“You’re going to get scabies from those things!” my mother used to say when I brought home a thrift store find. Fortunately, you can’t actually contract this rather vile mite from clothing, but a few ...

'Butterfly Blue' is one of those lazy, summertime perennial flowers. It's something of a weaver. The flowers appear at the tops of wiry stems, and so it works well with stiffer plants near it, ...

Perennial snobs cropped up in the early '90s when hybrid perennials exploded onto the market. Varieties from Coreopsis Moonbeam to Scabiosa Butterfly Blue and a whole host of others went from scarce ...