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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A dominate color can be taken to the ultimate degree by planting a garden totally in variations of one color. The Yellow Garden at Longue Vue House and Gardens is a superb example of this. (ELIOT ...