Profiles Index

Pansies - Growing a Cool Weather Favorite
Pansies are probably the most popularly grown and most recognizable cool season plant. The variety of colors and the cheerfulness of the pansy’s ‘face’ have made them a long standing favorite. And they’re easy and undemanding to grow. Here are some tips to keep your pansies growing and blooming longer.

Marigolds - Growing Marigolds, a Classic Bedding Plant
Marigolds are a popular,easy to grow bedding plant. Marigolds are cheerful, compact yellow, orange and burgundy annual flowers with flower shapes that can resemble daisies, coreopsis and carnations.

Nigella damascena - Growing Love-in-a-Mist in Your Garden
Nigella earns its common name of Love-in-a-Mist with a tangle of ferny, fennel like foliage that form a mist around the flowers. I'm not sure why anyone would call Nigella Devil in the Bush. Nigella flowers start off as interesting puffs, open into rich toned, straw-flower like blossoms and change into equally attractive seed pods. Here are some tips for growing Nigella in your garden.

Sunflowers - Growing a Banner of Summer, the Sunflower
Sunflowers make any day feel like a summer's day. They make look exotic, but sunflowers are extremely easy to grow. You can choose traditional yellow sunflowers or maybe try growing sunflowers in rich rusts and burgundies. Here are some tips for growing your own sunflowers.

Nasturtiums - Cool Season Flowers with Hot Season Flair
Nasturtiums are cool season annual flowers in rich, jewel tone colors. Nasturtiums are extremely easy to grow, practically growing themselves. There are bushy, trailing and climbing nasturtiums to fill every gardening need. They are even edible. You won’t usually find seedlings of nasturtiums, but the large seeds germinate quickly and the plants bloom all season. Here are some more nasturtium growing tips.

Sweet Peas - The Queen of the Annuals
Sweet peas evoke old fashioned cottage gardens, with their fluttering blossoms and intense fragrance. Growing sweet pea vines in the garden is both simple and rewarding, with a long season of bloom and an abundance of cutting flowers.

Zinnias - A Burst of Hot Flower Colors from Zinnias
Zinnias are a gift from Mexico. Their bold, hot-palette colors accent the flower garden, as soon as the temperature warms up. Zinnia flowers are usually deep, brilliant hues that work equally well in flower borders and flower pots.