Independent gardening advice for real gardens, balconies and windowsills.
From pollinator borders to cutting gardens, discover flowers that bring colour, scent and life to every outdoor space.
(Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum) Thistle family Flower-heads - Disk florets yellow, tubular, 4 or 5 toothed, containing stamens and pistil; surrounded by white ray florets, which are pistillate, fertile....
(Caltha palustris) Crowfoot family' Flowers - Bright, shining yellow, 1 to 1 1/2 in. across, a few in terminal and axillary groups. No petals; usually 5 (often more) oval, petal-like sepals; stamens n...
(Triadenum Virginicum; Elodea Virginica of Gray) St.-John's-wort family Flowers - Pale magenta, pink, or flesh color, about 1/2 in. across, in terminal clusters, or from leaf axils. Calyx of 5 equal s...
(Scrophularia Marylandica; S. nodosa of Gray) Figwort family Flowers - Very small, dull green on outside; vivid, shining brownish purple within; borne in almost leafless terminal clusters on slender s...
(Podophyllum peltatum) Barberry family Flowers - White, solitary, large, unpleasantly scented, nodding from the fork between a pair of terminal leaves. Calyx of 6 short-lived sepals; 6 to 9 rounded, f...
(Cratoegus coccinea) Apple family Flowers - White, rarely pinkish, usually less than 1 in. across, numerous, in terminal corymbs. Calyx 5-lobed; 5 spreading petals inserted in its throat numerous stam...
(Rhexia Virginica) Meadow-beauty family Flowers - Purplish pink, 1 to 1 1/2 in. across, pedicelled, clustered at top of stem. Calyx 4-lobed, tubular or urn-shaped, narrowest at neck; 4 rounded, spread...
(Pontederia cordata) Pickerel-weed family Flowers - Bright purplish blue, including filaments, anthers, and style; crowded in a dense spike; quickly fading; unpleasantly odorous. Perianth tubular, 2-l...