Most gardeners have some favorite flower colors they gravitate towards. Some like pink, some like red, and others like white or yellow. Blue is often a favorite color, partly because it seems to be ...

When the warm weather hits, most of us find ourselves spending a lot of time outdoors. With more time outside, we may want to make our surroundings as pretty as possible. Luckily, that's easy to do ...

Fall-blooming perennials are a joy to gardeners. For the lover of blue-colored flowers, blue mistflower, also known as blue boneset, (Conoclinium coelestinum) fills that need. The growth pattern is ...

To invite more hummingbirds to your garden, consider planting these flowers as a dynamic duo. They both feed the birds and ...

Many gardeners are working hard to secure colourful summer flowers, and growing one perennial plant could bring pink and blue blooms for weeks. With a blend of annuals and perennials, your garden can ...

Struck by wind and plunging temperatures, we might be turning blue. Cold does that. Not to Ohioans. We make a lot of soup, bundle up and pretend everything is normal. Turning blue for me is turning to ...

Some perennial flowers can take all the heat a central-Pennsylvania summer can dish out and grow on with no ill effects. Others, not so much. High heat has the ability to wilt leaves, shut down ...

With a mix of annuals and perennials, you can ensure your garden will have splashes of colour year-round. But perennials, particularly with their longevity, are a worthwhile investment for your garden ...

It's time for the “what’s in and what’s out and what’s hot and what’s not" columns. We know already that the Pantone color of the year for 2020 is Classic Blue – the color of the sky at sunset. I’d ...

The Arkansas blue star proves that something old can be new again, or at least newly appreciated. The showy plant has spiky blue flowers in spring and thick green foliage in summer that then turns a ...