In the spring, beautiful beds of pansies, violas, petunias, dianthus, snapdragons and other cool-season bedding plants are blooming in flower gardens. The peak blooming season for these plants is ...

The curious green flowers of bells of Ireland are scene-stealers in a spring bouquet. They look pretty in a vase with feverfew, snapdragons, larkspur and ammi, which is similar to Queen Anne's lace.

We all delight in colorful landscapes. Colors enrich, add interest, draw attention, beautify, unify and complete the landscape. We often rely on beds of flowering plants to provide it. To keep the ...

From Seed: If you want to start skeleton flowers from seeds, cold-stratification is necessary. The simplest method is to sow ...

If cool-season flowers -- such as pansies -- could tell you when to plant them, they'd scream for planting in the fall. It's ideal for bedding plants to produce many more blooms and the bright, sunny ...

When temperatures lock in at 90 degrees and above, we will do most anything to make it seem cooler. One option is to plant cool rather than warm colors in the garden. Perhaps these summer blues will ...

Economically, you get far less bang for the buck when you plant cool-season bedding plants late in the cool season. A pansy in a 4-inch pot costs the same in November as it will in April. A November ...

This is because the most spectacular spring displays of cool-season bedding plants were planted last fall, or at least by late winter/early spring. Early planting allows bedding plants to develop into ...