11.   Narrow border spades are for digging in crowded perennial gardens without disturbing neighboring plants.

12.   Perennial seedlings planted in spring often bloom outside their normal season, which is why my perennial garden this year sports delphiniums and Shasta daisies in August.

13.   Powell wanted something less fussy than a perennial garden, and White, who once lived in Florida, knew tropicals well.

14.   Q. I am attempting to grow lilies in my perennial garden for the first time.

15.   Q. I have two species of epimedium that are doing very well in deep shady edges of my perennial garden in northern New York State.

16.   She has included five types of sages in the perennial garden.

17.   Shasta daisies are the glue that holds a summer perennial garden together.

18.   She steers newcomers from the East with a penchant for English-style perennial gardens toward plants with similar traits that thrive here.

19.   The perennial garden was neatly clipped and raked, a few rose canes dangling from the top reaches of a rustic tripod made of cedar branches.

20.   Their spiky vertical shape is awkward when grown in isolation, but looks fine when poking through the overgrown foliage of a perennial garden in early fall.