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Peonies!

By Lise Funderburg

Peonies deliver showstopping blooms with surprisingly little effort.

Links We Love, 4/18/12

By Claire Lui

Re-growing your own celery, mirrored vases to show off one special flower stem, $6,000 melons, and more in today's Links We Love.

Golden Rock Inn Update

In an update to our story about the gardens of Helen and Brice Marden's Golden Rock Inn in the Caribbean in January/February 2012, we have new photos from landscape designer Raymond Jungles that show the most recent progress of the hotel's lush, tropical gardens.

Botanic Notables: Autumn Colors in a Japanese Flower Park

By Anna Laurent

The hills of Japan's Hitachi Flower Park blossom bright with about 30,000 bushes of Kochia, a bush whose leaves and stems turn red in October. A couple million light pink and white cosmos bloom alongside in the park's 153 hectacres.

Dahlia 'Bodacious'

By Jenny Andrews

Want your bouquet to really pack a punch? How about a fiery red-and-yellow dinner-plate dahlia up to 11 inches across! Dahlias can take a little effort (staking, pinching, storing tubers over the winter in cooler zones), but the results are worth it, and anyone who loves to make floral arrangements has them on the list of must-haves. ‘Bodacious’ can produce flowers midsummer into fall. dahlias.com, dutchbulbs.com

Indoor Houseplants

5 Strange Plants

By Paula Gross and Larry Mellichamp

From the authors of Bizarre Botanicals, here are some creepy plants to try for Halloween.

Custom Valentine's Day Portraits

By Claire Lui

Are you thinking about what to get your Valentine this year? We are loving these super-sweet custom Valentine's Day posters from Anna Bond at Rifle Paper Co.

Amazing Air Plants

By Melissa Ozawa

The poet Hart Crane once called air plants, or tillandsias, a genus of the bromeliad family, an "inverted octopus with heavenward arms." Needing no soil, these amazing plants come in a variety of fantastic shapes and colors.

Great Spring Plant Sales

By Alex Erikson

May is a banner month for public garden plant sales. This year at the San Francisco Botanical Garden, curator Don Mahoney is growing the fragrant luculia shrub, for which, he says, “a local nursery had a waiting list 35 people long.” At the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, director of horticulture Dorthe Hviid has been dividing some of the garden's historic collection of daylilies, readying them for sale.