If your annual flowers aren't exploding with celebratory fireworks of color right now, it may be lack of fertilizer.

Eclipse gets large, round, “mophead” flowers in late June to early July that are mostly cranberry-red but with creamy centers ...

From the coast to mountains and from mild climates to nearly arctic conditions, Maine encompasses more than a hundred types ...

Hardy in Zones 5 through 9, it displays yellow, red and orange leaves all on one shrub. Dwarf fothergilla is well-named because it only grows up two to three feet tall and wide.

This year the autumnal equinox was on Sept. 23. We entered autumn during these last few days. The weather of the previous week, the last week of summer, was more like this previous season. Now ...

Red raspberry leaf is a traditional remedy for boosting milk production in lactating women. However, clinical research has not shown any benefit to drinking red raspberry leaf tea for women who ...

I have been admiring the red leaves of some trees, vines, shrubs and herbaceous plants in recent years. The ones I’ve noticed most are poison ivy, grapes, red oaks and black-jack oak.

Retired teacher Larry Weber, of Barnum, is the author of “Butterflies of the North Woods" and “Spiders of the North Woods," among other books. Reach him via Katie Rohman at [email protected].

Leaves on these plants do, however, eventually grow old, die and drop from the plant. Before old leaves drop, they often turn bright yellow, orange or red.

It grows slowly to 30 feet tall or more, with compound leaves of 10 to 16 narrow leaflets that blaze into yellow, orange and red in the fall. With maples you have many choices for fall color.

Burford holly is a large shrub, up to 20 feet, that produces abundant red berries among the leathery dark green leaves and is especially beautiful if pruned into a tree form.

Plants draw on a suite of pigments to produce energy from sunlight, and in the fall, some become more obvious than others. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...