Members of the Aster and Symphyotrichum genera are long-beloved plants with a wide range of nativity across North America.

Its vivid, summer and fall purple flowerheads sit on reddish ruffs and feature a starry explosion from the top of each flower head. Looks good in the garden and makes an eye-catching cut flower.

Over twice as many “purple” plants are recorded in the Find-a-Plant database as “blue” plants. Many of the so-called blue flowers are described as purple-blue, violet-blue or silver-blue.

In late spring through early summer, its bell-shaped, reddish-pink to purple flowers emerge in clusters of three. As its blooming season wraps up, the flowers give way to soft, wispy seedheads that ...

Sea holly (Eryngium agavifolium) is just as striking as globe thistle, but it's hardy across a smaller range of growing zones (6 to 9). With leaves just as spiny and a flower head just as abrasive, it ...

Not many flowers have the power to infuse a whole garden with fragrant smells. Some never had the ability, while others lost ...

The Colorful Flower That Practically Grows Itself—And Makes the Perfect Companion Plant first appeared on Dengarden on Jun 28 ...

Setting aside a spot in your yard to grow flowers just for cutting all summer to make into bouquets is a goal of many ...

An Army Veteran and Purple Heart recipient who has lived in the U.S. for more than four decades self-deported to South Korea after immigration officials said he would otherwise be forcefully ...

In core eudicot flowering plants, indole biosynthesis is mediated by the pseudoenzyme TSB-like, which activates TSA but does not lead to tryptophan formation, allowing indole to be released as a ...

A 55-year-old veteran of the U.S. Army who was wounded in action, awarded the Purple Heart and honorably discharged self-deported this week after being ordered to by federal immigration officials ...

The January wildfires burned jacaranda trees from Pasadena and Altadena to the Pacific Palisades. Some are burned at the base but still blooming. Here's when you can expect them to recover.