Flowers are losing their alluring fragrances as growers breed for

Plant a red, white and blue pot of flowers
Finding blooming flowers in America's colors isn't hard; garden centers are full of them, and most combine beautifully and naturally.

Cutting back garden plants now makes room for new growth
And, with faded blooms on spring-flowering plants, there's plenty to do outside — deadhead fading flowers, prune, fertilize and weed.

Flowers are losing their alluring fragrances as growers breed for
Scent may be the most heady garden element of all, but many of our best-loved flowers have lost their fragrance over the last half-century as hybridizers

August 11 Stop and smell flowers
Enjoy a display garden tour at John C. Rudy County Park. The tour for the public is today from 9 am to 1 pm Rain date is Aug. 18.

Butterfly weed offers beauty in landscape
The orange flowers will certainly enhance the landscape, but watching what follows over the next few weeks will be something the whole family remembers.

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