dark purple to light lavender blooms, a hue resembling that of the night sky just after the sun sets. Lagerstroemia indica 'Twilight' is the tree's scientific name. Note that there's also the ...

Flowering trees can make a big statement when they're in full bloom. Every yard should have at least one such tree.

Alluring, like sirens, some vicious weeds produce beautiful flowers in calming purple hues. Here are the problematic blossoms ...

These trees (along with some shrubs and vines ... or fence and provides a thick screen of green leaves and fragrant purple blooms in early summer. It spreads very quickly, so be sure to rein ...

Sure, most perennials are drying out and dying down, and trees and deciduous shrubs are ... by gangly 2 1/2-foot-tall spikes of tiny purple blooms. They’re attention-grabbing, to be sure ...

Brett Summerell with some of the Royal Botanic Garden jacarandas in bloom.Credit: Wolter Peeters The trees have long prompted poetry as purple as the flowers they carry. A poem in the Herald by M.

Some foliage plants surprise in spring rather than fall. Siberian bugloss (Brunnera), for instance, is beloved for its ...