If your annual flowers aren’t exploding with celebratory fireworks of color right now, it may be lack of fertilizer.

Its daisy-like golden flowers with dark-colored centers make it easy to identify this short-lived perennial. The Great Blanket Flower makes a stunning addition to rock gardens or sunny borders with ...

The “sun” garden glitters by day and glows by night. Interspersed among phlox, catmint, purple Japanese irises, and red bee balm are sparkling blue and yellow glass flowers and solar-powered globes ...

Q: Why are more fruits and flowers red, orange or yellow than blue? —Robert L. Morrison | Poughkeepsie, New York There is actually no true blue pigment in nature. A pigment creates color by ...

Q. I’ve noticed while driving on the 241/261 toll road, on the back side of a structure hanging above the lanes, that there are red and blue lights that flash. My guess is that a red light wo… ...

Convergence in floral color shifts in two monkeyflower species: yellow flowers show increased carotenoids with low anthocyanins. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57639-3 ...

Now that our summers are trending hotter for longer, leaning toward perennials that can tolerate heat makes sense in garden ...

Sun-loving blanket flowers are easy to grow and care for, bringing an explosion of color to the garden. This beloved ...

While we are most familiar with flowers in hues of yellow, orange, red, and purple, the relatively few that are blue don’t seem to deter pollinators. “Insects and birds can widely detect blue ...

Image of a flower with blue petals on a blue background. I can almost feel it, beneath my parka. Not quite, but almost: burgeoning, blossoming, a murmur of springtime. At the Solomon R. Guggenheim ...

Known as yellow forest lily (Veltheimia bracteata var. Yellow Comet), it displays a mini-forest of luminous yellow tubular flowers whose arrangement at the top of a 1-2 foot stalk will remind you ...