Flowers

Hawk Sounds to Scare Birds

Hawk sounds to scare birds and squirrels are a powerful and effective way to keep birds away from your garden. Using hawk sounds can be a game-changer. How they...

Canada’s Smoking Hills

The smoking hills are well believed to have been burning for centuries and will do so for many...

Brush Cuckoo Call: A Melodic Marvel of the Wilderness

The brush cuckoo call is a far-carrying, descending chromatic sequence of 6–8 melodic whistled notes. Also shrill repeated...

Icecaps and Glaciers – Fascinating Natural Phenomena

Icecaps and Glaciers are fascinating natural phenomena. They are also critical for life on Earth. That’s why it’s...

Columbian Black-tailed Deer

Description. Columbian Black-tailed deer or blacktail deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus)  is smaller than the mule deer. It is...

Ajuga Reptans – A Fast Growing Plant

Ajuga Reptans is a fast-spreading plant, sometimes called “Bugle”, and has much to recommend it. Ajuga Reptans can take more foot traffic than most...

Aquilegia Flowers: Nature’s Most Underrated Blooms

The Aquilegia flowers and leaves of columbines have a dainty, airy quality. Several flowers have long spurs, and they come in every color. Including...

The African violet (Saintpaulia Hybrids)

African violet has a great range of colors and forms. It is very easy to grow and they will flower continuously over a long...

Aconite Eranthis Hyemalis Flower

The Aconite Eranthis Hyemalis flower bulb sends up three to eight-inch stems in the late winter or very early spring. With flowers that are...

The Lovely Rounder Shape Grape Hyacinth Flower

We can count on this bulb to bloom at the same time as my daffodils and tulips. It provides me with some blue accents...

Pholisma Sonorae – The Most Bizarre Wildflower

It is commonly observed that nature is extremely strange. The naked eyes sometimes nonplus the human beings. In North America, the flower Pholisma sonorae...

Decorate Home and Garden with Balloon Flower

Balloon Flower or Platycodon grandiflorus is a fine old-fashioned plant with flowers the shape of open bells, some single and some double, in colors...

Gladiolus Flowers are Popular For Bright Color

Gladiolus, or glads as they’re sometimes nicknamed, are popular flowers. They're tall, brightly colored red flower spikes that are showy in the garden and...

Periwinkle – A Perpetual Flower That Can Bloom Throughout the Year

Periwinkle is also called “Myrtle”. This popular ground cover is about six inches tall. It sends out runners over the soil surface that root...

Freaky Flowers – Echinopsis Cacti Showing Incredible Colors

A montage of a dozen types of “Echinopsis cactus” flowers blooming and showing off their incredible colors. Echinopsis cactus flowers bloom overnight and last...