Los Miramontes Lavender Farm naturally revolves around the plant in its name, but produces a variety of culinary and cosmetic ...

Plus, more on hydrangeas. What’s with those Latin names, anyway?Plus, more on hydrangeas. What’s with those Latin names, ...

Fall asters are long-lived perennials. The plants die to the ground soon after they finish blooming. Trim the spent stems ...

Forget sunflowers and asters, there's a flower that beats them both, and these flowers give you a sign of spring when they ...

There are many invasive plant species on Vancouver Island, but a few stand out as the worst culprits when it comes to ...

In the 1700s, a young botanist scandalized some by discussing “birds and bees” of pollination, and awarding Latin names to ...

Whether it’s a bloom of colour to add cheer to any garden or flowerbed or a reliable source of homegrown veggies, bulbs and ...

Yarrow has many common names, including nosebleed plant, old man’s pepper, devil’s nettle ... This wildflower has many cultivars in coastal Northern and Central California, with spring blooms in blue, ...

Photo Credit: Matt Lavin / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 The dotted blazing star can be a contradiction: It is popular for its beauty (large rose-lavender flower heads), but it is also among the toughest ...

A shrub up to 40cm high, with evergreen, aromatic, linear, grey-green leaves, and spikes of fragrant, very dark purple flowers topped with paler purple bracts in summer ...

The Stephanie Moon Reynolds plant placed third, at just over 8 feet tall. “Grandaddy Purple” was the variety of both. The Joe Cobb plant was a strain called Irene 11. It checked in at just ...