Late every summer, I’m amazed at how different my flower garden looks than it did in the spring. While I grow many perennials that produce beautiful blooms, the show-stoppers in my garden are often ...

Flaming orange flowers always catch my eye and the old-fashioned Mexican sunflower is still one of the best. There may be a revival happening with this plant that I have failed to notice. I belong to ...

Since there was no newsletter last week, here are two weeks of mystery plants: Mexican Petunia --Ruellia simplex is a perennial plant that takes care of itself and blooms all summer long.

Last summer I had the pleasure of watching a fat bumblebee joyfully buried deep in the center of an orange tithonia blossom, covering itself with pollen. The insect was oblivious to me as I moved in ...

Flaming orange flowers always catch my eye, and the old-fashioned Mexican sunflower is still one of the best. There may be a revival happening with this plant that I have failed to notice. I belong to ...

Someone down the street from me is growing a huge sunflower-type plant. It must be 20 feet tall and it is covered in yellow flowers. What is this plant, and should I grow it? This is called the giant ...

Talk about a butterfly magnet! Fiesta del Sol Mexican sunflower (Tithonia rotundifolia ‘Fiesta del Sol’) is just that. This truly dwarf Tithona grows only about 36 inches tall, much shorter than its ...

Janet Scoll Johnson captured this beautiful monarch butterfly on her Tithonia rotundifolia, commonly known as Mexican sunflower. The flowers are easy to grow, Johnson says, and attracts all types of ...

Driving through the suburbs and along the highways of Durban over the last few weeks, I found myself constantly greeted by bursts of brilliant star-yellow blooms hanging over fences, verges, and ...

I’m right on trend, even if I didn’t plan it. Colour of the year for 2024 is orange and I have orange flowers. Orange was selected by Pantone, the colour company, and adopted by Communities in Bloom.

Since there was no newsletter last week, here are two weeks of mystery plants: Mexican Petunia --Ruellia simplex is a perennial plant that takes care of itself and blooms all summer long.