For a more natural look, grow native pale purple coneflowers as wildflowers for butterflies. Wild Violet Viola spp. These petite but assertive blossoms are often considered a pest in lawns and ...

Featuring 18,000 plants and works by three contemporary artists, a new exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden celebrates the Dutch painter's love of nature ...

Deadheading many flower types is necessary to encourage more blooms and create a neater look, but not every flower benefits ...

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So if you see a flower that looks vaguely like one of these flowers, it's probably an aster. Flowers like the Bonita Top Blue (Callistephus chinensis) are sometimes a little harder to identify. They ...

Cosmos are members of the aster family (Asteracea), whose members produce disk-like flowers packed with tiny blooms and surrounded by showy ray petals. These flowers support insects with small ...

Keep this plant on the drier side and pair it with other flowers that don't like fertilizer or rich soil. Yarrow comes in shades of white, yellow, and pink and blooms from late spring into early fall.

They produce beautiful deep purple flowers in the fall. Asters like the New England Aster are great fall bloomers—often showing off daisy-like purple and pinkish flowers from August through October, ...