What’s your favorite color? My favorite color has always been green. I guess it figures, given my life-long interest in plants. But, if you ask me what my favorite color of flower is, I would say blue ...

Roses are red, violets are blue. Except they’re not. They’re, er, violet. True blue flowers are exceedingly rare, and not for lack of effort. Plant breeders have repeatedly tried to nudge roses and ...

My favorite color has always been green. I guess that figures, given my lifelong interest in plants. But it's not my favorite hue for flowers. The Times-Picayune ArchiveDan Gill will discuss 'The ...

Blue, particularly true blue, is a color relatively rare among garden flowers. Blame the pollinators. Flowers, remember, are not produced for our enjoyment. The colors of the petals are based on ...