While in Arizona I saw a plant called lantana that is a perennial. Can it grow in Florida in a shady site? – J.S., Tamarac A. Lantana grows here, but it needs full sun and dry conditions to do well.

I apologize if I led you down the wrong garden path last year, telling you that Chapel Hill lantana is reliably cold hardy in our Zone 7 area. It’s what the grower Monrovia said in its initial ...

Q: I have four perennial lantana plants. Do I cut the plants down to the ground or do I leave the plants with limbs on? F. M. Long, e-mail A: The topic is highly debated among garden experts, but I ...

A: If you are willing to make a little trip you can visit the nursery where the first perennial lantana was introduced. Rick Berry and Marc Richardson, founders of Goodness Grows Nursery in Lexington, ...

Only a few bedding plants offer such long lasting and dependable color as Lantana with its all-summer season of continuous flowering. We think of Lantanas as summer annuals, but several newer ...

This was my lantana last summer — now it’s black. I was told it was a perennial! The deer didn’t touch it. Yay! It bloomed like crazy into fall. Should I have protected it somehow? Lantana is ...

Every longtime gardener has a list of tough flowering perennials they consult when they need a dependable plant. My criteria for selecting the plants on this list are simple: They must be “tough,” ...