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How to dry flowers and preserve their color

Flowers are a beautiful addition to any setting, but the colorful blooms tend to only last for a few days or a week. Drying flowers is a great way to preserve them for display in a vase or frame in your home. Depending on the type of flower, there are ... read more

Video: Hydrangeas, the strange color-changing flowers

As a chameleon shifts its color from turquoise to pink to orange to green, nature's design principles are at play. Complex nano-mechanics are quietly and effortlessly working to camouflage the lizard's skin to match its environment. A super fungi subset ... read more

How Flowers Get Their Colors

This section answers how flowers get their colors. The pigment anthocyanin gives color to most flowers and fruits. Anthocyanins are water-soluble pigments in a class of chemicals called flavonoids. A pigment is an organic compound that gives a ... read more

How to Grow Perfect Pansies That Will Fill Your Garden With Color

These rounded, flat-faced spring flowers look just like a chubby-faced baby, so how could you not love them? Garden favorites for generations, pansies are widely available just about everywhere and are often the first annuals to bloom. Unfortunately they ... read more

We can be artists in the garden with the flowers we grow

Now I walk through Moscow neighborhoods and realize that an artist's soul may lie hidden under a flower gardener's dirt-streaked shirt. I pay attention to the color blends in the planting beds I pass. Maybe the gardener chose a single shade, such as deep ... read more

How to Pair a Vase with the Right Flowers

It’s easier to appreciate the different petal patterns, textures, and shapes when the color transition is smoother.” Perfect for: A bedside table in a guest room. “I also love the idea of giving a set of glasses with one filled with flowers as a ... read more

Purple is this year's hot garden color

Prince's favorite color has been popping up indoors ever since Pantone crowned ... purple carrots and purple sweet potatoes. Herbs with purple flowers, including lavender, catmint and rosemary, are also popular for beds, borders and pots. read more

Between the Rows: Annual Hawley Garden Tour to feature flowers and foliage on both sides of town

the perennial flowers and hostas. “I love hostas and I have about a hundred,” Fitzroy said. Her hosta collection does present a wide range of color and form. I admired the unique rotted log container planted with a hosta. She showed me the small dry ... read more

PLANT PALETTE: Lantanas are a beautiful addition to most any garden

Typical flower colors are reds, oranges, yellows, purples, pinks, and white. Flower color typically changes as the individual flowers mature, resulting in two or even three different flower colors on the same plant at one time. Some cultivars will form ... read more

Design yards to support, attract insects Gardening for POLLINATORS

The Pollinator Partnership offers a wonderful guide to choosing plants traits such as flower color, nectar, pollen, nectar guides, odor and flower shape to attract specific pollinators. (See go.osu.edu/Pollinator Partnership for the guide.) Plant flowers ... read more