Before you head to your favorite garden center shopping for plants and accessories, stand out by the street and look at your home. Note its colors and architectural lines, even the roof pitch, ...

Colors enrich, beautify and unify our landscapes. When adding color to the landscape, we often rely on flowering bedding plants and perennials. However, they add considerably to the effort spent on ...

I think that there is an almost universal desire to create landscapes that provide seasonal color through the year. Color is provided primarily by plants that produce showy flowers, but there are some ...

The landscape in Greater Columbus can be downright dreary during the winter months. The vibrant and varied colors of flowering plants are long gone from much of the landscape, and the green turf is ...

The bitter cold from a few weeks back took a toll on our cool-season color. Odds are that you’re about to make some significant upgrades to get ready for the growing season ahead. This is a fun topic, ...

Finding the perfect shade can be difficult in today’s world of endless color choices. Fortunately, we have color-matching apps. These innovative tools help users to identify, match, and experiment ...

As the name suggests, sweet pea is sweetly fragrant when blooming in spring. It’s also quite ornamental, thanks to the brightly hued pastel flowers of pink, purple and white. Give it something to ...

My husband and I recently bought a house built just after World War II with rooms stuck in nearly every decade since. I couldn't wait to get my hands on it and make it our own. However, picking the ...

Choosing paint colors can be an enterprise fraught with significant (other) danger and considerable expense. (Need proof? Consider the pyramid of too-bold, not-bold-enough, not-quite-right, paint cans ...