In my Jan. 6 column, I wrote that the National Garden Bureau selects a bulb, an annual, a vegetable and a perennial crop to feature each year. I featured the perennial crop of 2018, Coreopsis, in that ...

I love flower gardening. I recently planted these to outline my patio. Labeled a “Proven Winner,” they are not winning too well. I must be doing something wrong. Upon leaving my local florist, the ...

While new flowering species are introduced on a fairly regular basis, very few have supplanted longtime garden favorites such as geraniums and petunias, says University of Missouri Extension ...

Seedlings will begin to sprout in about 10-14 days. It takes about 8-10 weeks to raise full-grown plants, so plan accordingly. Growing calibrachoa requires full sun, at least 6 hours of direct sun ...

* What it is: A petchoa is a new type of annual flower that’s created by crossing a petunia with a calibrachoa. Petunias are trailing plants with many-colored tubular flowers that have been popular ...

Although Tropical America boasts 28 species of Calibrachoa, the only plants you’ll see in nurseries are hybrids – and all of them are gorgeous. These short-lived perennials, sometimes called million ...

The Garden Guy has been working on a project and the number I came up with is 1340. It is not my address, and the number wasn’t the assignment, but part of my own research to help me get started. That ...

This year the National Garden Bureau features Calibrachoa, often called trailing petunia, as its annual flower of the year. Few plants have seen a rise to stardom like Calibrachoa. The first plants ...