In the heat of summer, maintain your garden's appearance and extend an active blooming season by removing spent flowers. Here ...

Angelonia, also called summer snapdragon, is an annual plant in cooler climates of US hardiness zones 9 and below. It ...

Some of the best dried flowers are strawflowers, celosia, statice, baby’s breath, lavender, amaranth, roses, and hydrangeas. Although some gardeners consider it to be “cheating,” you can add your own ...

A professional gardener weighs in on whether you should cut off your dead hydrangea flowers, as well as tips on when and how.

Columbines are stunning flowering plants that come in a variety of bold, vibrant colors. Individual blooms last approximately four weeks on the plant, after which the flower begins to fade and turn ...

Blue daze (Evolvulus glomeratus) is a low-growing bedding plant that loves summer heat and sun. This pest-free plant has ...

Want your garden to smell as good as it looks? These flowers can do the job If it’s an intoxicating perfume you’re after, there are still some flowers that will make your nose — and your ...

Instead of throwing out faded flowers from a bouquet or from deadheading your plants, here are six ways to repurpose flowers past their prime.

Mulching helps to reduce soil moisture loss, keeps roots cool and prevents the growth of weeds, which use much water, robbing garden plants. Mulch after watering or a summer storm, rather than ...

“The Bear” actor reacts to the internet’s obsession with over viral flower photos.

Home Outdoors 9 colorful plants you can grow quickly for summer flowering Features By Madeleine Streets published 15 June 2025 ...

Toxic and poisonous plants grow in Michigan, including giant hogweed, poison ivy, poison oak, wild parsnip, poison sumac and poison hemlock. Contact with the plants can cause skin irritation ...