Our landscapes all have the potential to be very colorful. You can find a plant for every color in the rainbow, and the color blue is extremely popular. This week, I would like to share with you some ...

Lobelia siphilitica, Blue Cardinal Flower Blue cardinal flower, also known as great blue lobelia, is a tall native perennial that blooms for long weeks at the end of summer. Like its striking cousin, ...

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 ...

* 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 ...

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

Roses are red. Violets are blue. We love flower names, what about you? We can assume a lot of people feel the same way about names that mean flower by looking at data from the U.S. Social Security ...

Blue flowers are rare in nature, and for good reason: the color is usually the result of mutations and quirks of acidity levels rather than an actual blue pigment. That makes genetically engineering a ...

Twenty years later, it's still the blue that haunts. That cloudless day, the air just turning to autumn — the terrifying patch of bright blue sky that gradually appeared when the smoke parted just ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Talk about flower power! These baby names inspired by blossoms range from classics like Rose and Lily to ...