If you want to see year-round color, you don't need to look further than your backyard. There are many native shrubs and ...

Another easy spot to view wildflowers is along the Cove Hardwood Nature Trail during spring. This walking path is less than a ...

When choosing colors for a flower bed, consider the colors of blooming trees, shrubs, ground covers and vines that will live ...

If you have misconceptions or hesitance on double flowered Superbells calibrachoas, make this the year you try them.

Winter bed thinning is effective because it’s easier to be ruthless about clearing away elderly plants when they aren’t ...

Azaleas have low nutritional needs to put on a brilliant show of flowers. However, they do need an occasional boost to keep ...

Here are a few of the more common meanings of the color purple, according to Morris and Leno. Leno says purple embodies a sense of adventure and reflects an upbeat energy. This can also spill into the ...

New research suggests Earth was once a purple planet. Early microbes used retinal, not chlorophyll, for photosynthesis.

Wolf Tooth Components cans the long-time staple color, "standard purple," and replaces it with new, brighter, purple-ier ...

In case you have any memory left, you may remember a column we had on a page like this 25 or more years ago. The subject was ...

Loropetalum or Chinese fringe flower is an early spring blooming evergreen shrub with white, pink, red, or purple flowers. Learn how to care for loropetalum and when the blooms will appear.