Cockscomb flowers are a type of celosia, a plant with unique inflorescences—a.k.a. many-flowered spikes. These ...

It may not feel like it outside, but now is the time to start switching over your annual plantings for the fall and winter ...

The plants themselves are 75-cm tall annual flowers that, in my experience, self-sow in modest fashion, enough to create, from year to year, a few vivid exclamation marks of remembrance in a garden.

Cockscomb got its common name because some varieties of this plant flower in a thin, wavy line that resembles a rooster’s ...

While I have lots of perennials in my yard, I still like to have at least a couple pots of annuals in rotation ... It clumps in one-foot tall and wide bunches with a halo of delicate flowers ...

Following the rough drought we had, many pastures were full of weeds that persisted while cattle grazed on what little grass ...

The family of fall-friendly flowers includes hardy annuals as well as biennials and perennials. Keep in mind that 25 degrees ...

It’s early November, and I have the bittersweet task of putting the garden to bed. The recent cool temperatures and frosts ...

However, the email was tinged with sadness since it reports on the closing of a special nursery: “A little less than a year ...

Dreaming of a beach vacation? My guess is you’re picturing a palm tree. Fantasizing about life on a remote island? You’re ...

Potted hibiscus and angel trumpets (Brugmansia) should also be brought indoors before the first frost and treated as ...