You can also choose plants that have different bloom times throughout the season. That way there is always color in the garden. My local team planted wild columbine and coreopsis for early-season ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- On a recent visit to the Tom Harvey Memorial Butterfly Garden in the South Russell Village Community Park, Judy Harvey, the garden’s creator, showed me the native flowers in bloom ...

Beat the winter blues by planting now — from snapdragons to foxgloves, these spring flowers started from seed will have ...

There is nothing as beautiful as the sight of hummingbirds dancing and flitting from flower to flower in your own backyard. These wonderful creatures are small but mighty, infamous for their ...

WASHINGTON — Native perennials are a win-win when it comes to landscaping here in the D.C. region. Native means they are native to the area, and support our local ecosystem like birds and butterflies.

With its tall spikes of purple, pink, or white bell-shaped flowers, common foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) has been a popular ...

Flower fanciers have generally forsaken native plants over the years for the fashionable and the flashy, but the robust perennials are quickly becoming garden chic and the center of an ongoing ...

Last year, No Mow May — a movement urging people not to mow their lawns during the fifth month of the year that started in the United Kingdom to address the impact we have on the critical pollinators ...

Attention, anyone who thinks native blooms are brilliant in the wild — or our yards — but don’t work in bouquets. Boy, are we wrong. This isn’t an invitation to trample wildflower fields to pick ...

Just when you think you've missed the last chance for snow in your neck of the woods, you start seeing tree limbs covered in white. Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) is an even better cause for ...

It's that time of year again: the time when most Houstonians visit their local grocery store or nursery and carry home lilies, petunias, hydrangeas, roses, Johnny jump-ups, and other flowers that aren ...