Who does not want a garden brimming with hummingbirds? Find out what beautiful flower you can plant that will keep the little ...

Cardinal flowers are easy to raise from seed. Buy the seed or collect it from wild or garden plants. Now is an ideal time to plant cardinal flower seed. Seeds sown in the garden or in seed flats ...

Gardening isn't just about plants, it's also about all the wildlife your landscape attracts. This flower might be finicky, ...

Seeds sown in the garden or in seed flats and only slightly covered, to let some light in, will sprout in spring. Keeping cardinal flowers going year after year is difficult.

Q: I keep having trouble with Cardinal Flower in my garden… it disappears and I need to replace it every few years. Is it getting diseased, or am I not giving it what it needs? When it is ...

Cardinal flowers are a vibrant, late-summer blooming plant that thrives in central Ohio. This resilient plant attracts pollinators like hummingbirds and butterflies, and tolerates wet conditions.

These grow and beginning about now they send up a spike of neon scarlet-red flowers, often growing more than 12-inches tall. The Cardinal flowers in my garden often bloom until frost.

Seeds can be stored in the refrigerator for up to three years. After refrigeration, sow the seed very thinly in a seed flat, and then very carefully cover the seed with a light dusting of fine soil.

Those seeds were one of many highfalutin cardinal flower hybrids now available in various shades of red as well as white and blue. I suggest growing the pure species (the wild form, Lobelia ...

Ruderal species tend to be short-lived. In the wild, ruderals germinate from the seed bank when conditions favor them and their colonization of a habitat that suddenly has less competition.