While you likely don't want to completely envelop your driveway or garage with flowers, you can somewhat camouflage them with ...

Lobelia (Lobelia erinus) is indistinguishable from fan flower plants from a distance. Up close, you can see that lobelia flowers are small, abundant, and have a similar fan shape (with three ...

With that feeling comes what I think of as “The Cleanies.” Time to tidy up, thin out, clean, and start fresh, in the garden ...

Fall planting has benefits that spring planting does not.

Adding a water feature or pond to your garden will not only benefit the wildlife in our area, but has great benefit to people ...

Flower gardening is always most effortless when you have plenty of sun to work with, but this is only sometimes possible.

The answer to last week’s mystery is a cardinal flower, Lobelia cardinalis, pictured below: Cardinal flower is a native perennial plant from North and Central America. It gets its common name from its ...

The cardinal flower is a brilliant scarlet-colored native wildflower that grows in marshes, stream banks and low woods.

Photo Credit: I, SB Johnny / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 Also known as the “blue cardinal flower,” Great Blue Lobelia sprouts purple-blue tubular flowers. The striking blue color and beautiful ...

"Lots of coneflowers, blanket flowers, coreopsis, black-eyed Susans, along with previously planted blue lobelia, Joe Pye weed, milkweed, heliopsis, and more," they wrote. "There's also a redbud tree ...