Brightly coloured flowers produced throughout summer and fall are a definite must for patio containers

Here are tips on growing herbs and edible flowers.

Gardeners are endlessly fascinated by unusual plants: an eye-catching shape, a striking flower, an unfamiliar or tricky-to-grow specimen that tests their skill. For B.C. gardeners, desert plants fill the bill on all accounts. Let’s take a look at some handsome dryland plants, with tips on how to use them in our gardens.

In the depths of winter, when it seems that one’s spirits are at an all-time low and, as John Keats once said, “the sedge has withered by the lake and no birds sing,” it is comforting to know that there is a plant destined to bloom with bright-yellow star-like flowers to cheer us up and