Growing flowers can be a challenge for new and old gardeners alike. Check out our flower growing guides to learn how to get beautiful blooms in your garden.
In shades of white, pink, red, purple and blue, phlox is an incredibly popular, brilliantly-flowered ornamental plant. Whether it’s creeping phlox spreading out to become a beautiful ground cover, or a mounding phlox plant in the garden, these delicate flowers are definitely a sight to behold. The term “phlox” originates with the Greek word for … Read more
Carnations, sweet william, pinks! There’s such a wide diversity of dianthus plants out there, all of which are beloved by gardeners for their frilly flowers and their green foliage. But with all this variety, how do you take care of them? Are there diseases or pests that are likely to prey on your plants, and … Read more
Black eyed susan or brown-eyed susan, coneflower or Gloriosa daisy. These names describe the Rudbeckia species of plants. This relative of the sunflower grows both wild and in garden settings, and it’s a beautiful addition to your yard! But what really is the difference between a black-eyed susan or a browneyed one? Is a coneflower … Read more
We all want to encourage pollinators to populate our gardens. After all, without those pollinating insects, we don’t have flowers or produce! And so, to draw beneficial insects to our yards, we tend to use plants like bee balm. But what is bee balm, exactly? It’s a part of the mint family (Lamiaceae), and an … Read more
Ever wondered if there was a heart-shaped flower that you could give to your loved one? Well, look no further, because here’s a type of plant that produces strings of up to twenty of them at a time! Dicentra spectabilis, now known officially as Lamprocapnos spectabilis, is known more popularly by its original taxonomical name. … Read more