Blue butterfly pea is a perennial tropical vine known for its striking, vibrant blue flowers. It has an interesting botanical name, Clitoria ternatea, because the flower’s shape resembles a human ...

A vase full of freshly cut blooms is one of life's simple pleasures, but there's nothing more frustrating than when they droop shortly after displaying them. This is particularly common with flowers ...

Flowers can really brighten up a room. That is, until they start wilting and dropping, and then they look a little sad. Revive sad, drooping flowers with a safety pin. Gardening Nirvana says it’s a ...

Having fresh flowers in your home is a great way to add liveliness and a pop of color, which is just part of the reason why you should be keeping fresh flowers in your home year-round. Unfortunately, ...

What’s your favorite color? My favorite color has always been green. I guess it figures, given my life-long interest in plants. But, if you ask me what my favorite color of flower is, I would say blue ...

Are you growing the delightfully whimsical wishbone flowers in your garden? These pretty, low-growing annuals have the most ...

Wilting flowers might not signal poor flower or plant health, but rather the effects of a sophisticated resource management strategy in plants, millions of years in the making. A study in the journal ...

Adrian Dyer receives funding from The Australian Research Council. At a dinner party, or in the schoolyard, the question of favourite colour frequently results in an answer of “blue”. Why is it that ...