Planting a variety of perennials in your garden means there's always something blooming, which also means there are always flowers for cutting and bringing indoors for bouquets. Now, when hydrangea ...

, known familiarly as rose campion, flowers in a magenta so bright it's been described as floral original sin. Its common name is thought to be derived from the word "champion" because its blossoms ...

A deer wandered into the far corner of my yard and nibbled some prize roses recently. So I sprinkled Tabasco liberally onto the remaining foliage and hung some bars of Dial soap nearby. Folk wisdom ...

• Rose campion (Lychnis coronaria) is a clump-forming biennial with mounds of attractive silver-gray leaves that are woolly and narrow. The plant forms a rosette at the base during its first year, ...

As I was working in the front garden recently, people passing by stopped to ask about flowers blooming on the boulevard. As I was working in the front garden recently, people passing by stopped to ask ...

People often ask me what they did wrong. Their nice purple foxgloves that were so splendid last year are gone. Here's what I tell them: they did nothing wrong. Biennials die after blooming. Flowers ...