In the spring, beautiful beds of pansies, violas, petunias, dianthus, snapdragons and other cool-season bedding plants are blooming in flower gardens. The peak blooming season for these plants is ...

If you're struggling to fill bare spots in your shady landscape, these beautiful annual flowers will provide color and texture in full to partial shade.

Last week, I mentioned pansies, cyclamen, primula, stocks and sweet peas, but now let's discuss growing them in more detail. Pansies are the most popular cool weather annual. They are low-growing ...

COOL FLOWERS: Cool-season flower seeds that may be sown now include alyssum, candytuft, forget-me-not, poppies, ornamental cabbage and kale, lobelia, dianthus, calendula, sweet pea, larkspur, ...

February is the month when indoor seed-starting takes center stage in the Northern gardening world. It’s when eager gardeners get busy starting their cool-season plants, such as cabbage, broccoli, ...

Each year, visitors to my garden zoom in on a half-dozen or so new plants they’d like to try, but 2006 was different. Everyone wanted the same plant! The focus of all this attention and admiration ...

Roman Gonzalez is the creator of the urban gardening blog MrBrownThumb, founder of the Chicago Seed Library, and a co-founder of One Seed Chicago. Perhaps the easiest way to bring big impact to your ...

If you're a fan of flowers that bloom during the summertime, then you're probably familiar with black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta). Known for its wide, daisy-like yellow flowers with black, conical ...