In its helpful e-mails to gardeners, Bluestone Perennials outlines how to quickly divide perennials and ornamental grasses — a metehod called “sneaky divisions” — so you get more free plants for your ...

Bluestone Perennials has banished the use of plastic growing pots, and hopes other companies will soon follow their lead. Bluestone now offers its entire line of plants all grown in Coco Pots — 100 ...

William Boonstra of Bluestone Perennials in Lake County says his company has become the first nursery to banish the use of plastic growing pots in favor of growing them in Coco Pots, 100 percent ...

Founder Richard Boonstra, left, and son Bill, who now manages the business, show off a flat of plants bound for customers. Imagine you have just moved to your first home with a blank canvas with which ...

This year our long perennial border is looking better than it ever has in the four years of its existence. You might be tempted to think, "Of course it does," going on the assumption that it has taken ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: 1. A while ago, I featured Sedum Harvest Moon (Sedum spathulifoium) as the California native of the week, lamenting that I could not find it in the nursery ...