Hydrangeas are a flower power plant for summer gardens. They grow in hard-to-fill niches in garden plantings, or they can ...

Don’t let midsummer be the only explosion of color in your garden. These late summer flowers will bring variety and a rainbow of hues to any garden bed.

The evergreen foliage is a distinctive blue green with silvery undersides ... With their large, showy flowers in shades of white, pink and red, Mandevilla vines are among the most beautiful ...

Plant Doctor: Plenty of large green leaves but no flowers ... If you want blue flowers the soil must be acidic and alkaline for pink ones. What’s very important is keeping the soil moist.

Growing shrubs from seed sometimes produces interesting variations. A peony I grew as Paeonia veitchii var woodwardii, ...

Other excellent summer tree and shrub options include buttonbush, smooth and panicle hydrangeas, smokebush, rose of Sharon, Bluebeard and mock orange.

From late April through July, huge flower heads of light pink, pink, rosy-red, lavender, light blue, dark blue, bluish purple and white appear above the rich green ... so the plant does not ...

If you have been wanting something a little different for your garden, the exotic-looking cypress vine may be just the plant you are looking for. It is a tender annual plant, which means it grows ...