Platycodon grandiflorus 'Hakone Blue' offers dazzling double blue flowers in summer. It grows 24 inches tall and 18 inches wide. Zones 4-8 Varieties of sedum are practically perfect plants. They look ...

An interesting and well-behaved perennial, the balloon flower, Platycodon grandiflorus, acquired its common name due to the resemblance of its buds to a hot air balloon. Before its buds unfold and ...

My friend Barbara in Roslyn admired my bright blue Balloon flower (Platycodon grandiflorus) and wished for some for her backyard border. As I had large clumps that I started from seed a few years ...

This is definitely the year of “I won’t bloom where I was planted,” at my homestead. Tall purple (not wild, but acting like it) garden phlox everywhere — not to be outdone by blue balloon flower ...

The fourth week of May is a time of exceptional color in Western Washington gardens but also a time when many local gardeners are singing the blues — and enjoying blue blossoms. Here are questions, ...