It's easy to get carried away with aesthetics or perhaps even caught up in the gender debate, yet nursery color schemes need to deliver on a practical level, too. Ideally, a nursery's color should ...

The best plants to add color to a winter garden are those that can handle chilly weather while showing off flowers, berries, ...

Garden centers, florists and grocery stores are filling their shelves with a variety of holiday plants; a sure sign the holidays are approaching. This is the time of year to give, receive or fill your ...

Berry-producing shrubs also invite colorful songbirds into the garden and provide a vital source of high-energy food to ...

A number of vegetables can be used to create artistic landscape features. Vegetables are usually seen and appreciated solely for their utilitarian virtues: the potential to feed us, flavor fresh or ...

Vegetables and fruit get their coloring from naturally occurring pigmentation. Some examples are beta-carotene in carrots, lutein in red peppers and lycopene in tomatoes. The colors of plants do more ...

If the entrance to your home is looking a little lack lustre there's one surefire way to give it a lift. Introduce some appealing colorful shrubs to your front yard landscaping and it will instantly ...

Most of us crave color in the landscape. Colorful flowers and foliage enliven a landscape and bring interest and beauty. We typically plant colorful flowerbeds to provide splashes of color. While ...

People love attracting hummingbirds to their yards. These birds are gorgeous creatures, and watching them flit quickly about the garden in colorful dashes is a favorite pastime for many. The ...

It’s December in Los Angeles, but if you just arrived here from Chicago or New York and have never been here before, you may be in shock when witnessing certain plants in full bloom. I saw some ...