Editor’s note: Once a month, OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. As the heat of summer blazes, many of us are looking for ...

Each year the cardinal flower blooms for me, I am thankful. I'm thankful because although the plants are perennials, they are short-lived ones and could disappear anytime. Their ability to self-sow ...

Even though the drought this summer has been a huge setback for my garden, crisping up the lilacs and other shrubbery and will most likely result in a sub-par foliage season, one flower that has ...

I first saw cardinal flowers growing in a drainage ditch along a farm field. Their intense red took my breath away, in part because of their surroundings. This was no well-tended, perennial flower ...

The early summer wildflower season has arrived. Before long, alongside roadways and woodland edges, some of our more robust native plants will be flowering. By “robust” I mean high growing and stout.

I first saw cardinal flowers growing in a drainage ditch along a farm field. Their intense red took my breath away. The beauty of those cardinal flowers was not in their profusion of blooms but in the ...

I don't know whether it is the archaic language, the wonder of the time, or the more thoughtful and slower pace of life in the past, but it seems like the field guides and scientific surveys of the ...

Q. I recently attended a garden fair and purchased some cardinal flower plants. Could you please tell me how to care for them? — Becca, Woodbourne A. Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis) is an ...

I first saw cardinal flowers growing in a drainage ditch along a farm field. Their intense red took my breath away, in part because of their surroundings. This was no well-tended, perennial flower ...