It’s much easier to cut and arrange flowers with naturally long stems, since these will help the plant to stand up tall in a vase. You can always trim the stem down if needed, but you can’t ...

"In my garden, sea holly's bright blue flowers are always full of bumble bees, native bees, and beneficial wasps," Elizabeth says. "It looks similar to a thistle, and I like the cut flowers for ...

Chalky soil suits plants that like alkaline and free-draining conditions, and aren't bothered by drought or growing in ...

The biennial E giganteum ‘Silver Ghost’ produces big, eye-catching, silvery white blooms on stems of up to a metre tall. It ...

Tea: To make blue lotus flower tea, add one premade tea bag or 3 to 5 grams of dried flowers to 1 to 2 cups (250 to 500 mL) of hot water. Let steep for 5 to 10 minutes.

Eryngiums – or sea hollies – include the fabulously blue cone-shaped flowers of Eryngium × oliverianum Big Blue and the more thistle-like Eryngium bourgatii Picos Blue.

Four rare species have fluttered into view during my continuing quest to photograph the endangered Mount Charleston blue ...

Who needs tequila when you have the Tequila volcano? Give your liver a break and check out a view few are brave enough to ...

Another stunning blue flower worth adding to your garden is globe thistle (Echinops ritro). For starters, it pairs beautifully with other summer-blooming perennials. But more importantly, the same ...

It’s a hell of a one-two punch – albeit one that, admittedly, Virgin largely fails to live up to the overwhelming promise of.

Why mow when you can grow?' That question lies at the heart of an emerging movement that replaces turfgrass with tomatoes, ...

Viburnums offer a similar look as hydrangeas with large blooms and bold green foliage, but they are much easer to grow in the ...