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.
(Anagallis arvensis) Primrose family Flower - Variable, scarlet, deep salmon, copper red, flesh colored, or rarely white; usually darker in the center; about 1/4 in. across; wheel-shaped; 5-parted; so...
(Cichorium Intybus) Chicory family Flower-head - Bright, deep azure to gray blue, rarely pinkish or white, 1 to 1 1/2 in. broad, set close to stem, often in small clusters for nearly the entire length...
(Galium Aparine) Madder family Flowers - Small, white, 4-parted, inconspicuous, in clusters of 1 to 3 on peduncles from the axils of upper leaves. Stem: 2 to 5 ft. long, scrambling, weak, square; bris...
HAIRIF or AIRIF, STICK-A-BACK or STICKLE-BACK, GOSLING-GRASS or GOSLING-WEED, TURKEY-GRASS, PIGTAIL, GRIP or GRIP-GRASS, LOVEMAN, SWEETHEARTS." From these it will be seen that the insignificant little...
(Aisine media; Stellaria media of Gray) Pink family Flowers - Small, white, on slender pedicels from leaf axils, also in terminal clusters. Calyx (usually) of 5 sepals, much longer than the 5 (usually...
(Taraxacum Taraxacum; T. Densleonis of Gray) Chicory family Flower-head - Solitary, golden yellow, to 2 in. across, containing 150 to 200 perfect ray florets on a flat receptacle at the top of a hollo...