There's something enchanting about blue blooms running through the landscape. In fact, it can be exciting to let a ...

Hurricane lilies do best in rich, slightly alkaline soils with good drainage. Like other members of the amaryllis family, ...

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 ...

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

Besides being stunningly beautiful, the blue water lily has some surprising medicinal qualities, ranging from being an aphrodisiac to alleviating pain, depression, and even upset stomachs. The blue ...

At a dinner party, or in the schoolyard, the question of favourite colour frequently results in an answer of "blue". Why is it that humans are so fond of blue? And why does it seem to be so rare in ...

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