The Dianthus is fragrant, pink-lilac, pink-purple or white, often with picotee (a flower with a different colour around the edge than the flower’s base colour) margins ...

Kalpana Mukherjee admires flowers in her balcony Pictures by Brinda Sarkar ...

Don't start planting until after Mother's Day. It's not true. There are many cool season plants that can be planted now.

There aren't many times Houstonians can declare our weather glorious but the past few weeks have been just that. Except for ...

Available in shades of pink, red, white, and bi-color variations, dianthus also comes in a stunning lavender-blue Siberian ...

Fragrant flowers are perfect anywhere in the garden, but when you grow them in containers, you can place them around your ...

A garden is not just about sight: there is great pleasure to be found in planting beautiful fragrant-rich flowers like ...

Hummingbirds are on the move back to the United States after spending the winter in Mexico and Central America. Here's how ...

My neighbor starts planting his vegetable garden a month before I do. I’m worried about frost if I plant too early. What do you recommend?

Specific types of plants can help attract hummingbirds to ... columbine, hollyhocks, dianthus and butterfly bush, among others. The typical backyard hummingbird feeder is filled with sugar water.

Plant parsnip seeds directly in the soil outside now ... Bells of Ireland, larkspur, dianthus, bachelor buttons, Love-in-a-Mist, and celosia. These are the most stubborn to grow and are spring ...

Dianthus, with its brilliant hues and intoxicating ... whether from rainfall or your watering efforts. Water your plants early in the day. This way, the foliage can dry out before nightfall ...