If your patio gets full sun (about six hours of direct exposure), it might be difficult to keep potted flowers from drying out or getting scorched in the heat. Luckily, there are plenty of colorful ...

For those of us with a small outside space, adding color to a yard or balcony might not be as simple as planting lots more flowers. What if there simply isn't room? Well, planting extra flowers isn't ...

When we moved into our house, it came with a half-acre yard. Thirty years passed and before we realized, our trees grew into towering giants encompassing our back yard. The four-o’clock turns out to ...

Mother Nature always has a few tricks up her sleeve, and one of those which has charmed me for years is the magic of color-changing flowers. I’m not talking about flowers like hydrangeas, whose flower ...

When August comes around, the heat of summer is still with us. However, fall isn't far around the corner, bringing the promise of cooler months. While the prospect of cooler temperatures may be a ...

A plant common to Japan, Causonis japonica, is the first to show a newly discovered trait. Its flowers can change color depending on the stage of its maturation cycle, and then change back to its ...