Salvia adds spiky texture and vertical lift to the garden, as well as those elusive shades of blue — Indigo Spires, Mystic Spires Blue, Mysty Blue and Big Blue. Proven Winners has introduced the new ...

Rockin salvias are living up to that name in Georgia. I have never claimed to be a Madison Avenue marketing guru but the name Rockin for a salvia caught me as strange. Then again, who am I to instruct ...

If you’re planting a summer garden, area nurseries are filled with ideas. Here are seven perennials perfect for Houston. They will last not only this summer but for seasons to come. Salvia adds a bit ...

Like watching the credits roll by at the end of a favorite movie, fall to-do lists for the garden contain lots of tasks centered on closing up the beds for the year. Harvesting, trimming back dead ...

We bought about eight dark blue salvia plants from you. They are beautiful plants and have been blooming vigorously for a month and a half. My question is: In the past, the spikes that were fully clad ...

The question posed was: If you could only grow one flowering plant, what would it be? For me, the answer to that quiz is easy: salvias. Not only does this wonderfully-varied family of plants produce ...

Premium purple: Salvia x sylvestris ‘Amethyst’ was one of the top three finishers in the Chicago Botanic Garden’s five-year evaluation of hardy perennial sages for bloom and toughness. The highest ...

When it’s as cold as it’s been around here lately there’s not much to do outside. So this column is just a little of this and a little of that. You don’t need a thermometer to tell you how cold it is ...

As I write this, I am on Day 211 of hummingbirds feeding at The Garden Guy’s house, marking the longest date on the calendar that I have had them, until hopefully tomorrow and the day after. I don’t ...

A new look at Hydrangea Harmony of Colors may be just what you need as you plan your garden for 2022. You’ll see that it not only adds beauty to the landscape, it energizes and excites you and ...