A green and orange hummingbird in flight - Arthur Morris/Getty Images Even if you have plenty of other birds flicking around your yard throughout the day, it's always nice to see more hummingbirds ...

If you are looking for a bright, bold garden that outshines your neighbors' yards, orange-blooming perennials are the way to go. These plants come back year after year in an explosion of color, ...

Orange is a not a color for the faint of heart. It demands attention, as if shouting out, “Hey, look at me! Take notice!” For several decades, as a landscape designer, I studiously avoided the use of ...

The Esperanza is one of those shrubs that brings about hope and anticipation for the growing season. Actually, that is what Esperanza means in Spanish. As a gardener who got his horticultural roots in ...

For gardeners with limited space, a hearty shrub or small tree that produces fragrant blossoms nearly year-round might be a good choice. Mock orange fills that bill. The common name mock orange is ...

If ground cover selections in Southern California were confined to Peruvian lilies (Alstroemeria), I would not have a problem with that. There are Peruvian lily cultivars in every color except blue — ...