British horticulturist Gertrude Jekyll was a tastemaker in nineteenth-century garden design; her loathing for a certain color of flower gave it a lasting stigma. In 1899 she declared: “Crimson is a ...

Studying the ways that magenta and yellow flowers intermingle paints a vibrant picture of how the plants exchange genetic information—and what keeps each color variety unique A bee buzzes by a hybrid ...

Snapdragons are tall, charming plants, and flower in a range of bright colors. In Spain, where snapdragons grow wild, these flower colors show a remarkable pattern: When driving up a road from ...

Every season, scientists from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) go on field trips to the Pyrenees. Their mission: gather snapdragon flowers to understand their genetic makeup. In ...

The "perennial plant of the year" for 2019 is called Stachys ‘Hummelo,’ a plant that blooms in mid-summer with magenta flowers on spikes, towering over its green foliage.