A search of our database will pull up all the plants that match these requirements. Both search features are fun and easy to use. In this way our online catalog can be a research and idea tool to help design your garden using the plants that are best suited to the growing conditions in your yard. With the arrival of March, its time to clean-up our perennial beds. The extreme cold of winter has past and the plants are ready to begin their spring wake-up.
Herbaceous perennials are ones that freeze back to the ground each winter.
Sharpen those pruning shears and cut off all the dead stems and leaves back to just above ground level. Look before you cut. You will see what is alive and what the winter cold has killed. All ornamental grasses should also be cut back leaving 3 or 4 inches of stubble above ground level. This winter in New Mexico has had a total lack of snow cover.