Here’s a favorite flower of Vicki Nowicki, principal and garden designer of The Land Office in Downers Grove. And since it’s still early November, it’s a perfect time for planting it — in fact, the ...

Fall bulb catalogs are sweetened with alluring eye candy, including those lollipop-shaped alliums. Their large, globed flower heads consist of petite star-like blossoms that shoot from stems rising 2 ...

I am not crazy about baseball games. I go to see the fireworks. If my 2019 garden goes as planned, I won’t have to wait long to see floral fireworks. Next year, with a gardener’s good luck, my ...

Take your garden to new heights with alliums. This ornamental member of the onion family provides welcome color as spring bulbs fade and before summer perennials fill our gardens with colorful blooms.

Most folks consider tulips an annual flower and replace them every fall because they rarely return and bloom well after the first year. Tulips come from the high mountains of the “stan” countries ...

My plant discovery of last year was Allium schubertii. I had often admired them at Sissinghurst and thought they were a marvel - albeit something extraordinary and weird rather than beautiful. I was ...

I love Alliums because they add fantastic form, color and texture to your summer garden. They’re incredibly easy to grow, disdained by deer and rodents and have few (if any) insect pests. There are ...

One good thing you can say for deer is that they are slowly building a market for unusual bulbs that they find unappealing. Among them are many graceful alliums that were obscure just a decade ago and ...

British gardening expert Carol Klein, who also regularly appears on BBC Gardeners’ World, has shared more of her tips for gardening in autumn. In the fourth instalment of her new five-part series on ...