PARK CITY, Utah — Park City's slopes are home to the native curl-leaf mountain mahogany, an evergreen shrub that masquerades ...

Alluring, like sirens, some vicious weeds produce beautiful flowers in calming purple hues. Here are the problematic blossoms you must eradicate in your lawn.

The flowers are also a good source of late-season pollen and nectar for bees and butterflies. Asters make good cut flowers. * Size: Grows 26 to 30 inches tall with a three-foot spread.

Mieneke Andeweg-van Rijn // Getty Images 3 Echinacea (coneflower) These perennial flowers have rosy-purple petals with a large, cone-shaped pistil that attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees.

But its exotic-looking flowers bloom until a frost, so you can enjoy their color well into fall. In Zone 6 or colder, you’ll need to dig up the rhizomes after a frost to save them for replanting ...

Picking the best flowers to sow in the fall will guarantee the best start on next year’s ornamentals. Many annuals and perennials benefit from being started as we approach the quiet end of the year.

Wild bergamot has a long blossoming period. Ours has been blooming since late June and may go into August. The flowers can be up to 2-½ to 3 inches across in a beautiful shade of lavender, or ...