When gardeners hear the world salvia, it can bring any number of plants to mind — the old-fashioned, red-spiked annual Salvia splendens, or a blue- or purple-flowering form, or maybe the herb you add ...

Saucy is nothing short of sensational for an annual salvia. From late April through the heat of August a lot of flowers have come and gone, but Saucy is still putting on the wow factor. Saucy is a ...

Annual plants don’t live for a year as the name suggests. Scraggly, unkempt-looking summer annuals are part of the late-season landscape. Cosmos, both the orange and pink types; petunias, callibroacha ...

Jennifer Lazewski is the executive director of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology and a Master Gardener who has planted flowers in the garden of her Wauwatosa home to attract bees, butterflies and ...

If you haven’t been paying attention, hummingbirds are a thing. Actually, they've been a thing for a long time. There are whole websites devoted to tracking hummingbirds on their spring migration ...

The name Salvia comes from the Latin word “salvere” which means “to heal.” The name Salvia was given to honor this plant’s healing properties. Both the ancient Greeks and Romans used Salvia ...

Some gardeners think of annuals as a waste of time and money. I disagree. While the plants last for only one season, they do fill a variety of niches in the garden. Containers: You can easily get a ...

Hummingbirds migrate north in the spring, and their arrival is eagerly anticipated by some gardeners. Certain plants, like cuphea, geraniums, impatiens, lantana, nicotiana, petunias, salvias, and ...