Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once established, these native poppies grow in clumps of attractive foliage up to 12 inches across and 18 inches tall. Their lobed ...

Attention, anyone who thinks native blooms are brilliant in the wild — or our yards — but don’t work in bouquets. Boy, are we wrong. This isn’t an invitation to trample wildflower fields to pick ...

American witch-hazel, also called common witch-hazel, is a native plant in our area that surprises us by blooming in late fall into December. Yellow witch-hazel flowers are often spotted out in the ...

The last week of September has arrived and, as is often the case at this time of the year, the flowers in the yard look better than they did all summer. Recent beneficial rain, which is always better ...