This sunny annual flower is a favorite among gardeners, but you probably didn't know that hummingbirds love it, too. Plant ...

Orange is a not a color for the faint of heart. It demands attention, as if shouting out, “Hey, look at me! Take notice!” For several decades, as a landscape designer, I studiously avoided the use of ...

If you happen upon the sidewalk along the Sequoia Park Zoo on W Street in Eureka, take a good look at the bright orange flowers tucked in amongst the other native shrubs. This is the sticky monkey ...

While most winter and spring bloomers are planted in the fall, plenty of them can be sown in December. Find out which will ...

Almost everyone wants color in the landscape, and flowerbeds play an important role in that. But it takes a lot of work to keep them looking nice. A lower-maintenance way to provide landscape color is ...

Flowers are nature's ad men. They'll do anything to attract the attention of the pollinators that help them reproduce. That means spending precious energy on bright pigments, enticing fragrances and ...