Hummingbirds are a welcome sight for most gardeners. They commonly return to spaces where they can find shelter and reliable food sources. To create a more inviting and attractive hummingbird feeding ...

Hummingbirds are very plentiful this time of the year if you have plants that attract them to your garden. The native bright red Cardinal flower is their all time favorite. Hummingbirds are very ...

Cardinal flowers are a vibrant, late-summer blooming plant that thrives in central Ohio. This resilient plant attracts pollinators like hummingbirds and butterflies, and tolerates wet conditions.

From watching butterflies float in the sun to seeing bees zoom from flower-to-flower in the search for pollen and nectar, there is nothing as peaceful as a garden teeming with wildlife. One visitor ...

John Burroughs, the 19th-century naturalist, wrote, “But when vivid color is wanted, what can surpass or equal our Cardinal flower? There is a glow about this flower as if color emanated from it as ...

Q: I keep having trouble with Cardinal Flower in my garden… it disappears and I need to replace it every few years. Is it getting diseased, or am I not giving it what it needs? When it is growing, it ...

The botanical easy-button has been pressed for this one. This is one of the most easily recognized of all American wildflowers. Whether you know it or not, you’ll surely be seeing red. It is very ...

The early summer wildflower season has arrived. Before long, alongside roadways and woodland edges, some of our more robust native plants will be flowering. By “robust” I mean high growing and stout.

I first saw cardinal flowers growing in a drainage ditch along a farm field. Their intense red took my breath away, in part because of their surroundings. This was no well-tended, perennial flower ...