The scarlet blooms of cardinal flower are a hummingbird favorite ... Chard is a relative of beets, which can also be sown in ...

Ruderal species tend to be short-lived. In the wild, ruderals germinate from the seed bank when conditions favor them and ...

A sprawling, viny shrub, winter jasmine is noted for its late-winter bloom of yellow flowers that grow along the plant’s stems. It can be grown as a ground shrub or trained up a trellis or wall ...

One of many reasons is because the cardinal ... flowers. I have heard it referred to as “red salvia on steroids.” The foot-long spikes of showy flowers usually appear in the fall and winter ...

Winter is full of seasonal delights, but we don’t normally associate this time with vibrant flowers. Most plant species flower in the spring and summer, before lying dormant during the coldest ...

Jennifer Lazewski is the executive director of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology and a Master Gardener who has planted flowers in the garden of ... survive a Wisconsin winter in clay soil ...