Most folks consider tulips an annual flower and replace them every fall because they rarely return and bloom well after the first year. Tulips come from the high mountains of the “stan” countries ...

Question: I thought I was buying edible onions to plant in my garden, but I didn’t read the package well enough and I bought ornamental onions. It looks like they are supposed to have a round ball of ...

One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, peony, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia. Alliums, ...

Ciscoe Morris returns with more gardening expertise! Today he shows us how to care for Allium in our gardens. Alliums (ornamental onions) are versatile, yet under used, bulbs for the sunny border.

06:14, Mon, May 18, 2015 Updated: 09:16, Mon, May 18, 2015 In short: plants with built-in wow factor. Flowering in that awkward gap between the last spring bulbs and the first summer flowers, their ...

Beautiful and sturdy with a flair for the dramatic, alliums are a graceful way to add color and architectural dimension to your garden. With large globes of tiny white, purple, yellow or blue flowers ...

I love Alliums because they add fantastic form, color and texture to your summer garden. They’re incredibly easy to grow, disdained by deer and rodents and have few (if any) insect pests. There are ...

As autumn progresses, garden centers really want to move those familiar spring bulbs like tulips and daffodils. (They won’t keep till next year.) But there are a few compelling reasons gardeners, even ...

The crocuses disappear, the daffodils fade, the tulips peak, and then up pop the alliums: globes of flowers rising like blue and purple soap bubbles above the lush green foliage of late spring. “I ...

No need to let tight quarters prevent you from planting the garden of your dreams. Vertical gardening is the key. These vertically-growing perennials, annuals, shrubs, and trees maximize gardening ...

My appreciation of a plant is based on two considerations – how it looks and how it performs from year to year. As the moniker Casual Gardener implies, I’m not the most attentive plantsman and at my ...