Focus on Flowers

Research shows that despite the commonly held idea that hummingbirds love red, that is not the case.

Spring is a time to plant perennial chrysanthemums. They'll mature during the summer and produce breathtaking fall color in your garden.

I would not be without my annual larkspur, which I have enjoyed year after year and some often self-seed and return, but in order to be sure, I always buy some seeds. I don't want to risk a year without it!

While roses take care, trial and error over time will help a gardener learn which varieties thrive best in their climate.

There is a large number of more modern hybrid cultivars now available, and some produce flowers in other shades such as white, rose, magenta, burgundy, and purple.

If you want to minimize work in the garden, you can try to plant perennials that do not like to be disturbed and so never need to be divided.

I read of a grower in lower New York who has iris in bloom continuously from February until the end of July.

A walk in the woods in early April, when the air is cool and crisp, allows us the delight of discovering sweet little flowers such as the sharp-lobed Hepatica.

“I have grown wise, after many years of gardening, and no longer order recklessly from wildly alluring descriptions, which make every annual sound easy to grow and as brilliant as a film star.” -Vita Sackville-West

Twinleaf's botanical name celebrates a U.S. president who loved gardens, Thomas Jefferson.