Want a garden that’s beautiful all year long? It’s possible with these backyard gardening picks for year round flowers and perennial plants.

In the summer, Bartzella blooms double-petaled, yellow flowers marked with red flares in the center. The sweet scented, ...

Purslane leaves, stems and flowers are all edible. With a taste like tart spinach, Purslane is used as a culinary in other parts of the world. It can be eaten raw, and people enjoy it in salads.

Bright, wine-red stems are its outstanding feature, especially noticeable when leafless in winter. These stems grow up to 15-feet tall in an aggressively spreading, rhizomatous clump.

‘Red Stem; Malabar Spinach has reddish-purple stems, also with lush, glossy, thick, fleshy, dark green leaves. It grows more rapidly than the green stemmed variety and is the preferred as an ...

The floor is covered in stems, leaves and red petals. ... The floor at Scotts Flowers is riddled with stems, leaves and petals. About 20,000 roses pass through the shop every Valentine's Day.

Stems without berries or flowers can be put in yard debris. Pokeweed is a perennial plant, which means the stems, leaves and flowers die each year, but the roots -- and therefore the plant -- stay ...

Greetings, dirty thumbers! It was so much fun to see all of you at Kimberly Crest on Sunday, April 19. The Garden Tour trekkers are a fun group, and we had a wonderful day. Although I didn’t … ...

It seems this would waste a lot of stem that would not grow fruit. Remove the lower leaves and cover most of the stem with soil. The buried stem will grow roots, and you’ll have a sturdier plant.

Flowers are characteristic blue chicory flowers. • ‘Italiko Red’ variety has deeply lobed leaves, bold red stems and midribs, usually eaten as baby greens but can be harvested at any stage ...

The hidden beauty of flowers: Microscopic images reveal the alien landscapes to be found on petals, pollen grains and leaves. Images were taken by Eye of Science microscopy photographer Oliver ...