Give your garden a head start on summer with rare blue blooms that look almost too vivid to be real – all grown easily from seed indoors in winter.

Adrian Dyer receives funding from The Australian Research Council. At a dinner party, or in the schoolyard, the question of favourite colour frequently results in an answer of “blue”. Why is it that ...

What’s your favorite color? My favorite color has always been green. I guess it figures, given my life-long interest in plants. But, if you ask me what my favorite color of flower is, I would say blue ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This whimsical annual blooms in spring and can grow in a variety of soil types but prefers rich, fertile soil. When most people ...

When temperatures lock in at 90 degrees and above, we will do most anything to make it seem cooler. One option is to plant cool rather than warm colors in the garden. Perhaps these summer blues will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Butterfly pea grows wild across India [Impex] "Until a few years ago, the butterfly pea flower was just another climbing plant in ...

Blue is a colour that comes in many different shades, and can complement just about any home garden. Here are five "stunning" ...

At a dinner party, or in the schoolyard, the question of favourite colour frequently results in an answer of “blue”. Why is it that humans are so fond of blue? And why does it seem to be so rare in ...

Beautiful and fragrant blue petunias get their unusual color from a molecular defect in the system that controls the acidity of the plants' cells. A new study reveals this defect in full, solving the ...

In nature, blue is much rarer than you might think. Sure, the sky is blue when the weather’s nice, and so is the ocean. But the vast majority of plants and animals are incapable of making blue pigment ...

Fall in love with those poppies at Longwood Gardens if you wish. But come April, they'll probably ghost you. The rare blue-poppies that flower at Longwood Gardens are back in bloom and on display ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published on April 24, 2018. We are bringing it back for the first day of spring. If you look closely at Texas roadsides during wildflower season, you'll ...