Now is the time to plant cool-season bedding plants in the flower garden. These will provide color from fall until next April ...

The following piece was written by Master Gardener Margaret Wolf, who has received training through Colorado State University Extension’s Master Gardener program and is a Master Gardener volunteer for ...

Long-lived, gloriously colourful, richly scented dianthus are a joy. The only problem is they are almost too pretty It all began with a Sunday afternoon trip to Special Plants in Wiltshire. Being ...

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 ...

Pink is an easy colour to use in perennial borders and rock gardens and the genus Dianthus provides for plenty of pinks. Flowers may be single, semi-double or double; single forms have five petals.

It's KON here.The flower this time is a horticultural variety created from the China pink (sekichiku).It's a flower often ...

Once your cutting is rooted, nip out the main shoot to help produce a bushier plant. This is best done in the morning. Credit: CHRISTOPHER JONES Water in the growing season and feed plants every two ...

Guardian journalism is independent. We earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. Our gardening expert on pinks – the carnation’s heavenly scented cousin I recently ...

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).

Once your cutting is rooted, nip out the main shoot to help produce a bushier plant. This is best done in the morning. Credit: CHRISTOPHER JONES Water in the growing season and feed plants every two ...