It’s when eager gardeners get busy starting their cool-season plants, such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, onions, and leeks for the vegetable garden, and pansies, violas ...

Sometimes they are looking so pretty that it’s hard for me to pull mine up to plant my summer annuals in the spring. Pansies and violas are versatile plants and can be used in ...

I quickly filled my cart and headed home to fill my flower garden with these colorful cool-season annuals. Learn why you should add one (or more!) viola flower varieties to your garden.

To help guide your planting choices, we're sharing the best spring annuals to grow in window boxes, from colorful flowers to long-lasting foliage plants. Pansies (viola x wittrockiana) are early ...

Shear off achilleas, perennial violas (including all Viola cornuta varieties) and lychnis, plus anything else that looks leggy and thin at the bottom. Leave penstemons and most silvers intact ...

Both vinca (Catharanthus roseus) and pentas (Pentas lanceolata) are actually perennials that can live ... I have a question about violas. I notice these plants available at nurseries along with ...

The author of “The Heirloom Gardener” offers tips for growing a garden of lush perennials you can put in a soup or add to a salad. By Margaret Roach Many weeks before tomato seedlings can be ...