Orange is a not a color for the faint of heart. It demands attention, as if shouting out, “Hey, look at me! Take notice!” For several decades, as a landscape designer, I studiously avoided the use of ...

If you're looking to attract more hummingbirds to your garden, this hybrid perennial can be planted in November for ...

The Esperanza is one of those shrubs that brings about hope and anticipation for the growing season. Actually, that is what Esperanza means in Spanish. As a gardener who got his horticultural roots in ...

Trumpet vine is a high-climbing, aggressively colonizing, woody vine that is cultivated for its attractive reddish-orange flowers that attract hummingbirds.

For gardeners with limited space, a hearty shrub or small tree that produces fragrant blossoms nearly year-round might be a good choice. Mock orange fills that bill. The common name mock orange is ...

If ground cover selections in Southern California were confined to Peruvian lilies (Alstroemeria), I would not have a problem with that. There are Peruvian lily cultivars in every color except blue — ...