The Perennial Plant Association has selected Dianthus gratianopolitanus Firewitch’ (Feuerhexe’) as its 2006 Perennial Plant of the Year. Also known as a cheddar pink, the perennial dianthus is an ...

There's such a huge variety of perennials that you can choose from for your borders or container garden that sometimes you just want to focus on which color to add to the mix to create that stunning ...

Key Points Herbs like garlic, thyme, and peppermint help keep slugs away when grown nearby or used in sprays.Flowers like ...

Jane explores the diversity of dianthus. Dianthus are a favourite for cottage gardens. They're often called carnations, clove pinks or just pinks, because they look like someone's used pinking shears ...

‘Given the choices— real estate, gambling, aerobics or television — dianthus addiction seems a delightfully fresh direction for 20th century compulsives.” I know Katherine Whitesides was right about ...

This past weekend I was in church and one of my pastor friends asked me an interesting question about mini roses. One of the characteristics of carnations is some of them look a lot like roses. He ...

References to the plant genus Dianthus go back as far as the Greek botanist Theophrastus. He named these plants from the Caryophyllaceae family “divine flower” (dios = divine plus anthos = flower).