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 ...

As the growing season comes to a close, hummingbirds still need to stock up on nectar to prepare for winter migrations. These ...

As the heat of summer sets in, many plants take a break from flowering, but these stellar selections continue to bloom all season long. From annual bedding plants that just won’t quit, to reblooming ...

Here are some late summer flowers that will rejuvenate the look of the garden and lift any gardener’s spirits.

Asters are a beautiful fall-blooming perennial for any garden. Learn the three windows to cut back asters for the most blooms ...

AT FIRST GLANCE, blue is everywhere in our Pacific Northwest corner of the natural world — bluebird skies, rivers, lakes and saltwater surround us. However, in the world of flowering plants, fewer ...

Get plant picks and timing to pair blue plumbago, white vinca, duranta, pansies and more for drought-smart color from fall ...

Many plants that are a familiar part of our home gardening landscape may not cope with the hot dry summers and excessive winter wet that are becoming more common with changing weather patterns.

Summer is for flowers, and taking pictures of flowers in a garden is a fantastic way to capture summer's beauty. I admit I am better at growing weeds than flowers, so during my travels across the ...

* What it is: Lily-of-the-Nile is a tough, long-blooming, perennial blue flower that’s very common in its native South Africa and warm-weather parts of the U.S., but it’s always been just out of our ...

A woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai, from the Edo Period, about 1800-05, titled 'Express Delivery Boats Rowing through Waves (Oshiokuri hatô tsûsen no zu),' from an untitled series of landscapes ...