Each year the National Garden Bureau selects a flower to promote, and this year Centaurea is in the spotlight. Centaurea actually includes a number of species that gardeners are more familiar with by ...

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 ...