Purple flowers can bring a pop of color to any garden, and it may be tempting to allow any purple flowering volunteer plants to take up residence. Unfortunately, if that purple flower is comfrey ...

Q: I'm hoping you can help us. We are looking for climbing vines with flowers, preferably blue or purple. Other colors are OK if we can mix. We would like something fast-growing (we already have ...

In 2003, Lori Buchanan, manager of the Molokai/Maui Invasive Species Committee, investigated a glossy-leaved plant with pinkish-purple flowers. She had seen it growing as a shrub in a handful of yards ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Spring has sprung, and one telltale sign is the fields of purple flowers in the area. These plants appear in corn and soybean fields, where they are visible to passersby. Learn more ...

A poet is said to be someone who sees the world each day as if for the first time. I can vouch for this poetic feeling whenever I see certain plants, no matter how familiar they might be. At this time ...

Lavender grows 12 to 18 inches tall and wide. They require full exposure to sunlight. The aromatic flowers grow in a lush green foliage. Allium produce globular-shaped flowers and are available in ...

When Julie Ann Wegscheid first saw creeping bellflower along the fence line of her home in St. Paul’s Como neighborhood, she didn’t think much of it. “These are kind of cool,” she thought of the ...

Like watching the credits roll by at the end of a favorite movie, fall to-do lists for the garden contain lots of tasks centered on closing up the beds for the year. Harvesting, trimming back dead ...

In our mind’s eye and our fertile daydreams, vines offer a touch of romance hinting at private pleasures. Think of a half-hidden bower draped in greenery as the setting for a lovers’ tryst or a ...

Summer-flowering vines add so much to the landscape: They can cover arbors and pergolas to provide shade, fill in lattice fences and help with privacy, and make chain-link fences more attractive.