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New York asters bring striking colors and height to your pollinator garden, not to mention the insects and birds that will ...
Stink Floyd, the 12-year-old corpse flower at Reiman Gardens in Ames, has bloomed. And with that bloom comes the reason ...
It often happens that when a certain color combination appears in your garden, it is simultaneously found on a number of ...
Two of my favorite shade-tolerant perennials are grown primarily for their attractive foliage. Hostas have swordlike bicolor leaves; Heuchera micrantha varieties come in colorful leaf shades including ...
Gardeners on the lookout for low-maintenance, disease-resistant, deer-resistant plants with beautiful flowers, consider ...
Early one Saturday in April, I headed out along the Seawall just as the sun kissed Coal Harbour. A jogger zipped past with ...
These peony alternatives are just as beautiful as peonies, and come with the promise of more successful blooms in California ...
The late artist Ruth Asawa regularly drew the bouquets people gave her. Years later, some of the sketches made it back to ...
Summer blooming perennial flowers have some of the longest blooming periods. Coreopsis Moonbeam, Geranium Rozanne and Peruvian lily (Alstroemeria) bloom from early summer to frost. Daylily ...
One of my earliest memories of a garden occurred in northern Germany at the home of my maternal grandmother, Renate. With a mischievous twinkle in her eye, she invited me to join her on a ...
Mother’s Day is coming, and the flower and candy ads are everywhere. There’s nothing wrong with either, of course, but both ...
Making floral arrangements that look gorgeously professional can be tough. But this golden ratio is a trade shortcut that's ...