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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Butterfly pea flower will give you the blues. “Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love ...

"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 ...

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 ...