Articles Index

Color Theory in Landscape Design
Browse flower photos to plan your landscaping according to color theory or schemes. Links to the flower photos are prefaced by an introduction to color theory, especially as it applies to landscape design.

Salvia Flowers
Although the scarlet plants are the best known, 'annual' salvia flowers do come in other colors, including white, salmon, pink, purple, lavender, burgundy and orange. Salvia flowers, in their native lands, are perennial plants.

Foliage Plants
Colorful flowers look wonderful in a yard, but foliage plants boast a reliabilty that colorful flowers do not. You can count on foliage plants to 'be there for you,' long after blooms have faded.

Types of Flowers
These plant lists introduce beginners to the different types of flowers and foliage plants suitable to grow under particular landscape conditions. I.e., whether you're planting in sun or shade, in wet or dry conditions, you need to know which types of flowers will thrive there.

Groundcovers and Other Low-Growing Landscaping Plants
An index to articles on groundcovers and other low-growing landscaping plants. Since lawn grass, shrubs and trees are covered elsewhere, these resources focus on other landscaping plants, such as annual flowers, perennials and groundcovers.