Placing your shortest plants in the front and taller ones in the back will draw the eye through your flower bed naturally.

The debate over how to take care of flowers probably began as soon as humans started cutting them and displaying them in vessels — enthusiasts have been encouraging people to stick a pin in each ...

It’s October, which means winter in Arizona isn’t too far off. The seasons change here in what feels like a split second and before we can even begin to get used to the 100-something-degree weather, ...

On a rainy spring evening, a group of women shared their tools: wooden beads, strips of crepe paper and cups of glue. Step by step, they transformed their piles of craft supplies into gorgeous paper ...

Animal-pollinated plants typically make a flower to attract visiting animals. A straight-forward example is a salmonberry flower, familiar to all of us. There’s a circlet of pink petals ...

Take a deep, sweet lungful of jasmine fragrance–and admire its courage. Its swaggering machismo, even. For a strongly scented flower takes terrible risks, says scent biologist Robert Raguso of the ...