The curious green flowers of bells of Ireland are scene-stealers in a spring bouquet. They look pretty in a vase with feverfew, snapdragons, larkspur and ammi, which is similar to Queen Anne's lace.

In the spring, beautiful beds of pansies, violas, petunias, dianthus, snapdragons and other cool-season bedding plants are blooming in flower gardens. The peak blooming season for these plants is ...

We all delight in colorful landscapes. Colors enrich, add interest, draw attention, beautify, unify and complete the landscape. We often rely on beds of flowering plants to provide it. To keep the ...

Severe freezes this winter have left our landscapes less attractive than usual as we begin to move into spring. Tropical plants that might otherwise be contributing foliage are brown or have been cut ...

If cool-season flowers -- such as pansies -- could tell you when to plant them, they'd scream for planting in the fall. It's ideal for bedding plants to produce many more blooms and the bright, sunny ...

When temperatures lock in at 90 degrees and above, we will do most anything to make it seem cooler. One option is to plant cool rather than warm colors in the garden. Perhaps these summer blues will ...

Cool season crops are trending again in the world of gardening! As commercial flower grower and podcaster Lisa Mason Ziegler shares, cool season crops are not a new concept. It’s how our grandparents ...

Economically, you get far less bang for the buck when you plant cool-season bedding plants late in the cool season. A pansy in a 4-inch pot costs the same in November as it will in April. A November ...