There may be no such thing as the perfect flowering plant, but if votes were cast, scabiosas would certainly get their share. As a nurseryman, I sometimes get asked for plants that flower nearly year ...

“You’re going to get scabies from those things!” my mother used to say when I brought home a thrift store find. Fortunately, you can’t actually contract this rather vile mite from clothing, but a few ...

The large, lavender-blue flowers of the Caucasian scabious (S. caucasica) have been a cut-flower staple for 150 years or more. But I value these frilly flowers for the contribution they make in the ...

* The Perennial Plant Association has chosen Calamagrostis acutiflora Karl Foerster as Perennial of the Year 2001, says GMPRO, the monthly magazine for the greenhouse profession. It’s the first time ...