It's easy to spot this one, blooming in April and May. Individual plants are biennial, living their first year with leaves, and blooming the next season. The plants are typically tightly crowded ...

What’s your favorite color? My favorite color has always been green. I guess it figures, given my life-long interest in plants. But, if you ask me what my favorite color of flower is, I would say blue ...

First, let me say that when gardeners use the word “blue” to describe the color of flowers, we sometimes fudge a bit. There is often a decidedly lavender or purplish tint to flowers we call blue. As a ...

Blue blooms in our gardens are loved by most of us, but what we call blue flowers are mostly blends of blue and red to one degree or another. Pure blue, sky blue or true blue flowers, as they are ...

Twenty years later, it's still the blue that haunts. That cloudless day, the air just turning to autumn — the terrifying patch of bright blue sky that gradually appeared when the smoke parted just ...

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 ...

My favorite color has always been green. I guess that figures, given my lifelong interest in plants. But it's not my favorite hue for flowers. The Times-Picayune ArchiveDan Gill will discuss 'The ...