Blue Summer Flowers
It often seems that a selection of flowers of a certain color burst into bloom all at once. A few weeks ago, I was noticing everything orange — including lantana, marigolds, `Stella d’Oro...
Category Archives: Flowers
Blue Flowers for a Cool Summer
The flowers you planted in spring may have all but disappeared now. If so, you might be wondering if there is something you could plant that would flower despite summer’s heat and bloom straigh...
Flowers That Love The Heat
As summer arrives, gardeners seek out those plants that, despite day after day of scorching heat to come, will bloom without interruption for the next several months. One of the best summer bloomers ...
Mid-Summer Blooms
Planting flowers in midsummer may be the last thing on your mind, yet this is the precise moment for maximizing the effect of certain bedding plants that bloom abundantly no matter how hot it gets. A...
Flower Power — Even When It’s Hot
The flowers you planted in spring may have all but disappeared now. If so, you might be wondering if there is something you could plant that would flower despite summer’s heat and bloom straigh...
The Mustard Family: from Broccoflower to Alyssum
A tangy radish, a broccoflower and a brussels sprout. These cruciferous edibles would quite a salad make, but when it comes to pretty garden plants, I would choose to grow a cousin of theirs, the swe...
Princess Flower
If more people knew about the princess flower, it would surely become one of the most popular plants on earth. To borrow from Will Rogers, I never met a man who met a princess flower he didn’t ...
Fuchsia (few-sha) and Other Evening Primroses
You don’t have to be a horticultural whiz to grow fuchsias. The soil need not be perfect – as long as drainage is decent – and constant fertilization is a requirement only for nonst...
From Profusion Zinnias to Golden Xanadu Philodendrons
At West Valley Nursery in Tarzana, you will find unfamiliar versions of familiar plants, also known as cultivars. The word “cultivar” is a combination of two words, CULTIvated and VARiety. A cultivat...
Cactus Flowers Are ‘Incroyable’
Nowadays, it is rare to receive a letter by snail mail. You know, the old-fashioned way that mail was sent, before the advent of personal computers and email. Surely you remember. Not too long ago, t...
