*Growth habit: A long-lived annual with a mounding growth habit producing plants 18 inches tall and wide. The leaves are medium green with a lancelike to oval shape growing to 3 inches long and 2 ...

* What it is: Despite being a showy, drought-tough flower that the deer and bunnies don’t eat, melampodium has never caught on as a popular annual in Pennsylvania gardens. Newer varieties bloom in a ...

A great summer annual to include in your garden is melampodium (Melampodium paludosum). Sometimes mistaken for a zinnia, it’s a small mound-shaped plant that becomes almost covered in 1-inch yellow ...

One of the pleasures of my life is talking to gardening professionals. It’s always informative, inspiring and just plain fun to “talk shop.” Jonathan Landrum of Landworks: Landscape and Pest Control ...

Bright yellow flowers cover bushy, heat-loving melampodium plants throughout the summer. Creating beautiful plantings in window boxes and containers? Easy. Keeping the plants beautiful when summer ...

It's funny that melampodiums I used to consider ideal beginner plants are now "must haves" during summers that have a penchant to be both hot and dry. Hot and dry describes my location. If you are in ...

In a fit of creative frustration I put out an S.O.S. (Status of Stress) to my friends on Facebook asking for ideas and questions they might have that would work for this column. Luckily, because so ...

Earlier in spring, I discussed new gardeners and gardens. I also wrote about the use of self-seeding annuals, which can help new gardeners as they learn this hobby. Here, I will make some suggestions ...