The viola genus of plants is vast, including violets, pansies, johnny jump-ups, and the Wisconsin State Flower, the wood violet. The common denominator among the plants is color, color, and more ...

When flowers in summer are so plentiful, it’s sometimes difficult to choose which ones to pick. We are not thinking about the bare, cold days of winter when the earth is a miser. We peer about for a ...

Annuals are eye candy in the garden, their colorful presence often rewarded with a Yard of the Month sign. Pansies, the most colorful of our cool-season annuals, accommodate any palette from muted ...

Long before the sculptor Auguste Rodin gave us a guy resting his chin on his knuckles, the garden world had its own thinker. The humble violet had been bred to show a dark blotch on pale petals. It ...

Now that November has arrived, we are less likely to experience hot spells where temperatures exceed 90 degrees, which is important for some of our most spectacular winter bloomers. Pansies and ...