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Adding new plants to your garden doesn’t have to happen only in spring; it can take place all summer long. Enjoy your favorites such as peonies, lavender, black-eyed Susans, daisies, bee balm, ...

View full sizeOrnamental peppers are amazingly beautiful and resilient in the summer flower garden. And, the colorful fruit they produce is edible -- although generally fiery hot. Top ornamental ...

BADGER, Minn. - First it seemed winter would never start. Then it seemed it would never end. So let's think about putting a little extra zing into our summer flower gardens. You can't beat colorful ...

Every summer I grow flats of annual cutting flowers: sunflowers, poet flower, zinnias, stock. I’ve gradually added more and more perennials to my beds so that the beds are mostly full of color and don ...

When you walk into a nursery or garden center this time of the year, it’s exhilarating — you look around at all of the flowers and feel that the possibilities are limitless. Visions of flowerbeds ...

A garden with edge borders filled with different kinds of red flowers - Jacky Parker Photography/Getty Images Have you wondered why hummingbird feeders are usually red? It's because red flowers often ...

Vincent Deorio tends to plants in the greenhouse at Reynolds Farms Nursery in Norwalk. Deorio co-owns the nursery with his son, Jeff. — Mev McMahon photo Christine Devine gathers flowers at The ...

My recent quest for hot summer colors in local nurseries proved to be more rewarding than I could have expected. I was greeted with a virtual feast of color. More new plant varieties arrive in ...