Viola Velour Frosted Chocolate
I just can't help it – I love brown flowers. Maybe it's the irony; maybe I just have a thing for the color brown. But the malted-milkshake, silvery tones of Velour Frosted Chocolate are on another...
View ArticleViola Angel Tiger Eye
This is one of the most unusual and striking violas you'll ever see, with an inky lacework of veining etched across a golden background. Forms a neat mound 4 to 6 inches high and wide, with numerous...
View ArticleViola Sorbet Black Duet
A member of the very popular, many-colored Sorbet series from grower PanAmerican Seed Co., Sorbet Black Duet is a sweet little bicolor, with a bright-purple face and velvety dark-plum wings. Sorbets...
View ArticleViola Velour Blue Bronze
In a crazy-bold color combination, purple pairs with deep russet in Velour Blue Bronze. Bronze tones are darker in the fall, brighter in the spring. A very hot color match with 'Eye of the Tiger' Dutch...
View ArticleOsmocote® Presents: Viola Angel Terracotta
The warm sunset tones of Angel Terracotta glow in the garden, with a bright-orange face peering from amber-toned petals. Nice in, well, a terra-cotta pot, or paired with tawny plants like Carex...
View ArticleWave Petunias Celebrates 15 Years
Avid gardeners look at their outdoor space as an open canvas, and flowers as the colorful tip on their landscaping paintbrush. Whether in pots, hanging baskets, or in beds and borders, petunias inspire...
View ArticleViola Angel Amber Kiss
A bit quirky but totally cute, the ruffled, often semidouble flowers of Viola Angel Amber Kiss are very un-viola-like. Ruddy orange with a yellow center and rose-colored reverse on the wings. Each...
View ArticleIris ensata'Ruffled Dimitry'
This new Japanese water iris has a poetic grace, with large flowers of lavender falls veined in violet and a dark-purple central clutch of “petaloids.” Adds a lovely accent to summer water gardens when...
View ArticleOsmocote® Presents: Rudbeckia'Radiance'
A black-eyed Susan amped to the max. Heads of narrow, quilled golden petals look like a cheerleader’s pom-pom. Blooms summer through fall, 18 inches tall. Hardy to Zone 5a.read more
View ArticleViola Sorbet Marina Babyface
Lilac blue with a cream face, deep-purple blotch and clutch of whiskers, Viola Sorbet Marina Babyface is sweet beyond belief, and fragrant too. Forms a mound 6 inches high and up to 10 inches across;...
View ArticleCutting Edge: California Cutting Garden
When Flora Grubb added a floral-design studio to her San Francisco garden boutique and nursery this past fall, she created it with intent. The Cutting Garden would use only in-season California-grown...
View ArticleGreat New Plants!
On a recent trip to the Ohio Florists Association tradeshow in Columbus, Ohio, I got a sneak peek at the amazing plants growers have been busily, patiently creating, some new to garden centers this...
View ArticleThe Meaning of a Rose
Gallery Page Layout: Gallery A The rose as a universal symbol of love, desire, and beauty is deeply embedded in our society today. Its significance originated in antiquity, and was also influenced...
View ArticleThe Language of Flowers
Gallery Page Layout: Gallery A The Victorian language of flowers meant that you could express a wide range of sentiments with a simple floral nosegay. On Valentine's Day, the sweetest of holidays, we...
View ArticleWitch Hazel
Among the plant world's many miracles, witch hazel may be the most restorative. In colder parts of the country, it is one of the only big plants to bloom during the low-light days when gardeners feel...
View ArticleDavid Austin's Garden Roses
If you want to see all eight varieties of the cut flowers, take a look at our David Austin's Garden Roses Slideshow.In Magazine Issue: May/June 2011read more
View ArticleDavid Austin's Garden Roses: A Slide Show
Gallery Page Layout: Gallery B A slide show of beautiful David Austin roses, a variation of the old fashioned rose that was hybridized to smell and look like English roses,but that would also work...
View ArticleGreat Spring Plant Sales
May is a banner month for public garden plant sales. This year at the San Francisco Botanical Garden, curator Don Mahoney is growing the fragrant luculia shrub, for which, he says, “a local nursery had...
View ArticleGilding Lilies
See also the Gilding Lilies Photo Gallery for more photographs of the lilies.In Magazine Issue: July/August 2011read more
View ArticleGilding Lilies Photo Gallery
Gallery Page Layout: Gallery A A look at some of the new lily hybrids available for the bulb and cut flower market.In Magazine Issue: July/August 2011
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