Multiple cup-shaped blooms grow on a single stalk and have a thin papery texture. They provide height to flower arrangements and are nice as cut or dried flowers. This compact evergreen shrub is ...

Being of Irish heritage (my grandmother's maiden name was Maud O'hara) I love St. Patrick's Day and always try to bring a plant with green flowers for the host of any party I go to on St. Patty's Day.

As spring marches forward with promises of sunny days and April showers, we watch our lawns and gardens turn green — the most common color in the natural world and second only to blue as the favorite ...

References to the plant genus Dianthus go back as far as the Greek botanist Theophrastus. He named these plants from the Caryophyllaceae family “divine flower” (dios = divine plus anthos = flower).