Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astrantia flowers. Many flowering plants, such as astrantia, self-seed, which means mother nature takes care of their dispersal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coneflowers grow alongside white Astrantia - mcajan/Shutterstock As summer starts to wind down, one of the first things many of us ...

Woman digging in a raised garden bed in winter, preparing for spring. - Natalia Savilova/Shutterstock In the heart of winter, your yard may be draped in shades of gray and white, but January is the ...

Maybe it's an aging thing, this disenchantment with ostentatious beauty, but humbler flowers increasingly look better all the time. Handsome is precisely as handsome does, which is what makes ...

OF all the so-called "cottage garden" plants, the astrantia is one of the most endearing. But, like many of its fellows, it cannot truthfully trace its ancestry back to the cottage garden - and that ...

GINA PARKINSON feels a touch sentimental as talks up the astrantia. The astrantia is an attractive family of cottage garden plants providing long-lasting interest from as early as April and well into ...