Bird of paradise is perhaps the best-known plant with blooms that resemble birds. They suit hardiness zones of 10-12 for ...

Flowers are either white, pink, or red and leaves are either green or bronze. Mix them with yellow and orange tuberous begonias and mauve to purple perennial geraniums for a more cheery effect.

It’s all about those unusual features you don’t often see in your average garden blooms. Take the Celosia Crest, for example. Its wrinkled, almost brain-like appearance really sets it apart.

A purple coneflower that blooms orange, a coralbell with leaves as big as your face and maybe the best lavender plant yet are among the best new perennial flowers hitting the market in 2014.

“Its very unusual-looking for a fuchsia,” said Ted Mayeda of M & M Nursery in Orange. “It blooms from April to first frost with semi-double flowers, deep rose sepals set against a corolla of ...

Flowers don’t have all the power to enliven a landscape. Here are 4 trees and other plants that do well in the coastal region ...

Yellow crown imperial: Like the more common orange crown imperial, the yellow variety grows 3 to 4 feet in height, crowned at the top with a tuft of pineapple-like growth.

Unusual Plant Names: Growing Plants With Funny Names. ... Can also be known as golden dancing ladies due to the yellow, orange, or purple tinted flowers that rise above lance shaped leaves.

Whenever I visit Worldwide Exotics Nursery, I see something I’ve never seen before. It’s a nursery with lots of unusual selections and many of them appeal to the “I gotta have one ...