Want to take your garden beds from basic to beautiful? These border flowers add color, texture, and definition.

At an average height of 1 to 1 1/2 feet, it's compact enough to be grown as a ground cover or border ... and the clusters of spring flowers range from pink to purple to purplish-red.

maroon-purple flowers. Planted en-masse towards the front of a spring flower border, it looks and smells magnificent." Bergenias, also called Eroicas or Elephant Ears, are a vibrant plant with ...

As a garden writer, I adore popular perennials, but there are so many other lesser-known perennials that are ...

Sow your opium poppies - used to make medical painkillers including morphine, codeine and oxycodone, as well as illegal narcotic heroin - in autumn or spring for a bumper crop in summer ...

maroon-purple flowers. “Planted en-masse towards the front of a spring flower border, it looks and smells magnificent.” Elephant Ears (Bergenias) Bergenias, also called Eroicas or ...

maroon-purple flowers. "Planted en-masse towards the front of a spring flower border, it looks and smells magnificent." Bergenias, or Elephant Ears as they're often called, are tough plants with ...

But nothing says 'Spring' quite like flowers. We answer your flower gardening questions and spend some time talking about one flower in particular: orchids. Orchids are the largest plant family in ...

But the perennial flower beds always have more promises in store for the grower. Flower bed colors have moved into a range that is more subdued than the spring bulbs. It is the old story of ...

In areas that faced wildfire this spring, fields of purple flowers bloomed amidst the scorched trees. As the name suggests, fireweed is one of the first species to show itself following a wildfire.

And if you're looking to get in on the trend there are some flowers you will need to plant now so they can "settle" in time for spring ... orange and purple to encourage positive feelings and ...