Description: Blooming in a large bulb pot in my garden now is a Cerinthe major. I first saw this lovely, unusual plant in a bouquet at the Mendocino farmers' market. The foliage is what caught my ...

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Thrifts are tidy plants that form grassy-looking tufts topped by small round-headed red, white or pink flowers that float above the foliage. These tough plants love sun and must have free-draining ...

Cerinthe, a.k.a. the "blue shrimp plant," is an annual that I wasn't impressed with. It was floppy and didn't produce very many flowers. It's a novelty worth trying to see what it does, but there are ...

Here's a plant that's grown in my esteem year after year, especially since I have to do absolutely nothing to get it to put on a display that makes people walking by stop to look. I've got it growing ...

Dear Roger: I've been looking for blue-flowered perennials for my flower border in which I have a blue and white color scheme. I have come upon cerinthe, which is also called blue kiwi. Do you think ...