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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

If you only had one light shining on your screen (red, blue or green), the light on your screen should have had the same color. Holding the pen in between the light and the screen results in only ...

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 ...