One of gardeners' frequent challenges is to integrate plants that provide attractive foliage with more colorful flowering species. Then again there are "one-stop-shopping" plants such as the ...

Centaurea is a very large genus with many venerable garden – and some disreputable – species. The name is from the Greek kentauros, a centaur, who was believed to have introduced us to the medicinal ...

Centaurea montana captured my interest many years ago, when I saw it in the garden of the Holliston Historical Society. The flowers of this Mountain Bluet were similar to the annual cornflower that I ...