Recently I was at my mother-in-law’s in Minneapolis. Her yard was exploding with blooms and color. She has a raised yard with a graceful slope to the sidewalk in front of her house. The ground cover ...

THE pink-flowered soapwort has been flowering by roadsides in many parts of the country, mainly the east, for a few weeks now. This is an eye-catching plant because of its soft pink colour, a shade ...

Many of the wildflowers you can see blooming along roads and in fields came over from Europe with the settlers. Soapwort is no exception. This pink phlox-like flower is currently the star of the ...