Woman holding a starter pot with lavender flowers - Irina Shatilova/Shutterstock Plant lavender (Lavandula spp.) where it will grow best and you will be rewarded with a beloved perennial that blooms ...

Lavender growing in pots along a path - Westend61/Getty Images Can't get enough lavender? Since lavender (Lavandula spp.) is a perennial, you may be thinking about dividing it, as you would other ...

Get expert instructions for growing lavender in your backyard or indoors. This fragrant perennial can thrive in many areas of ...

I’m always interested in unexpected ideas for cooking with the herbs and flowers in my garden. If you’ve kept up with my column over the years, you’ve seen recipes such as mint pesto, lemon balm ...

I created a long bed for flowers that is 6 feet wide I would like to plant mostly perennial flowers. Could you give me suggestions of flower varieties so I can have color from spring through fall? If ...

The best trait of perennial flowers is that you plant them once, and they come back year after year (assuming the deer and groundhogs don’t eat them). No replanting is needed every spring as with ...

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Plant lavender (Lavandula spp.) where it will grow best and you will be rewarded with a beloved perennial that blooms from early summer into fall. With more than 45 known species of lavender and ten ...