These flowers are short and sweet! Low growing perennials stay petite but will fill your garden beds with beautiful blooms.

Sweet alyssum ( Lobularia maritima) is a low-growing plant with beautiful purple, pink, or white blooms. The pleasantly fragrant flower is perfect as a ground cover or to fill empty gaps in your ...

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As you no doubt noticed, many of our native plants have yellow flowers. However, a bit of variety can be pleasing to the eye. Introducing white flowering plants into your color scheme can add variety, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These whimsical flowers will brighten up your landscape. Steffen Gathling / lens-flare.de / Getty Images When you think of daisies ...

Tomatoes are one of the great joys of gardening, but they're also magnets for pests — especially the dreaded tomato hornworm. These large green caterpillars can strip a plant bare in a matter of days, ...

Explore 20 of our favorite flowering, sun-loving shrubs that aren't hydrangeas. Here’s how to grow them in your garden. Bring ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. Fully bloomed azaleas are ...

White dogtooth violet, or white trout lily, is a small, early blooming lily found in Iowa woodlands. In early spring, Iowa’s woodlands begin to fill in with color. If you look closely, you’ll find a ...

We all know the term wildflower season, but have you heard of “tiny flower season?” Probably not, since I made it up last year when I decided to do a tiny flower inventory of the local parks. As the ...