Annual comes from the Latin meaning “pertaining to a year.” These plants live their whole lives within a year, and often just a season. Our traditional garden flowers, such as pansies, petunias, and ...

When you’re shopping for flowers, you’ve heard the terms “annuals” and “perennials.” But is one kind better than the other? What’s the difference? And do you care for them differently? Sometimes ...

Pansies are a delightful flower to enjoy during the winter months, when so few other plants are blooming. Unlike most annuals, pansies thrive in cooler temperatures. Even though typically grown as an ...

Several annual and perennial plants can add a splash of color to your landscape in early spring. Consider planting ranunculus in a pot or basket for a stunning display of pastel colors. Chives, while ...

The pansy, one of the friendliest-looking flowers, is the National Garden Bureau's annual to showcase in 2017. Each year, the NGB picks one bulb, annual, perennial and vegetable to spotlight, with ...

Pansy faces in every color of the rainbow beam at us. A visit to a camellia nursery dazzles us. We have to stifle the tendency to go wild and fill our shopping carts or (in my case) wagons. According ...

If any flower truly deserves the description “cute,” it’s pansies. They look so much like cheerful little faces, in fact, that my computer’s photo-editing program keeps trying to classify their images ...