Last week we took a look at the best new edible plants hitting the market in 2016. This week it’s time to see what breeders and growers have cooked up in the way of new and interesting annual flowers.

When choosing plants for a garden, you may base your decision on a variety of factors. We sometimes decide to choose plants based on a color palette we like. This is easy to do if you want a garden of ...

'Dark Knight' has very dark blue flowers over silver-grey foliage. 'Arthur Simmonds' has grey-green leaves, silver underneath and rich blue flowers. 'First Choice' is a lovely dark purple-blue. There ...

These annuals are heat lovers — they’ll languish in too much shade, flop over and be stingy with their blooms. For Northwest gardeners, the genus Salvia provides us with a wide range of plants to ...

Evolution salvia is a cultivar of mealycup sage (Salvia farinacea) and comes in two colors, white and purple. (Photo courtesy of the LSU AgCenter) Evolution salvia, bursting with purple and white ...

Blue is the rarest flower color, seen on only 10 percent of the 280,000 flowering plants on Earth. Among those who specialize in color analysis, it is sometimes claimed that, in reality, there has ...

If you would like to do an all-blue flower border, here are some plants you should definitely consider using. Hardy geraniums: “Johnson’s Blue” is an old favourite but “Rozanne” is a better pick. It ...

As the sun sank and dusk gathered, a white-lined sphinx moth (Hyles lineata) hovered while sipping nectar from notch-leaf scorpionweed (Phacelia crenulata). The moth’s agility was remarkable — it ...