The summer bloomers boast white, pink or purple flowers, with leaves that may be green, blue-green or yellow in summer, turning purple-red in fall. For one of the prettiest dwarf flowering shrubs ...

The color blue aids relaxation, which makes it a great choice for the flowering plants in your yard. Here are 11 trees and ...

Almost everyone wants color in the landscape, and flowerbeds play an important role in that. But it takes a lot of work to ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Caryopteris Dark Knight is a compact mounding shrub growing 3-4’ tall and wide. It has fragrant, deep blue-purple flowers backed by silver-gray foliage.

Some of the best dried flowers are strawflowers, celosia, statice, baby’s breath, lavender, amaranth, roses, and hydrangeas.

One shrub I particularly like is the dwarf blue leaf arctic willow (Salix purpurea Nana) It's fine-textured with narrow stems and blue-green foliage. It develops into a compact mounded shrub ...

Then there's Pugster Blue butterfly bush, Diamond Spire gardenia, and loropetalum- Purple Daydream or Dwarf Crimson Fire. Purple Pixie dwarf loropetalum has a weeping form, which is neat.

Dwarf Iris bloom very early in the spring in zones 4 through 9. The true reticulate bulbous species is native to the Caucasus and has violet flowers with a yellow blotch of color on the falls.

Blue is the rarest flower color, seen on only 10 percent of the 280,000 flowering plants on Earth.Among those who specialize in color analysis, it is sometimes claimed that, in reality, there has n… ...

Be warned that dwarf blue periwinkle, although a moderate grower, does have a shallow, spreading rooting system and may advance beyond the borders you intended.

#1 Shrub for Foundation Plantings There are the old-fashioned spiraeas with lacy white flowers such as ‘Bridal Wreath' that are quite large, as well as many new dwarf cultivars of spiraea on the ...