This low-maintenance, flowering ground cover is easy to plant under trees and shrubs. The plant's delicate blooms also draw ...

Native plants are often known for grand springtime displays followed by dismal summer and fall foliage. But that isn’t true ...

The most common reason for a lack of flowers on hydrangeas is that they were pruned at the wrong time of the year.

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 ...

In Los Angeles, no tree is more breathtaking than a jacaranda in full bloom. Its nickname of “blue haze tree” is well chosen. On a mature tree, an ethereal lavender-blue cloud engulfs its majestic ...

* 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 ...

If you're growing hydrangeas in your yard, you probably already know that you can alter the color of the blooms by amending ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s been a bad few years to be a bee. Last summer was full of drought and fires; this summer was a damp squib, with rain washing out ...