Floss flower (Ageratum houstonianum) is a dependable annual that can grow soft, cloud-like blooms in shady garden beds. At 6 to 12 inches tall, it forms neat, clumping mounds of fluffy, aster-like ...

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For plenty of colorful petals all through your garden, plant primrose! These water-loving plants appreciate some morning sun ...

A butterfly-magnet new ageratum, a shrub-turned-annual-flower called dampiera, and a new sunflower with a thousand blooms headline the list of interesting new annual flowers debuting in the 2025 ...

What’s your favorite color? My favorite color has always been green. I guess it figures, given my life-long interest in plants. But, if you ask me what my favorite color of flower is, I would say blue ...

With hundreds of thousands of flowers in the world, it can be tough to choose which ones to plant in your garden. Our pro ...

Half the fun of gardening is seeing what everyone else is doing. My main Facebook fun is scrolling though the photos of people’s flowers, vegetables and landscapes. For me, horticulture wasn’t just a ...

If spring crept up too quickly, and you’re scrambling to find some plants to add color to your garden, you should turn to fast-growing annuals. With brilliant bursts of color and low-maintenance ...

Much has been said about the virtues of heirloom vegetables. Bred for taste, not looks, they can be among the best tomatoes, melons, squash and beans you'll ever eat. But let us also praise heirloom ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: Flowers. Although the bloom period of annual statice (Limonium sinuatum) stretches from summer to fall and is long enough for this species to earn a ...

Hummingbirds migrate north in the spring, and their arrival is eagerly anticipated by some gardeners. Certain plants, like cuphea, geraniums, impatiens, lantana, nicotiana, petunias, salvias, and ...

A new line of disease-resistant impatiens, a sunflower that thinks it’s a blooming bush, and a velvety trailer that people can’t resist touching top the list of interesting new annual flowers debuting ...