With their star-like brilliant blue blossoms, Centaurea cyanus or bachelor’s buttons are a favorite in Redlands. Native to Europe, this member of the Asteraceae family has naturalized across North ...

Each year the National Garden Bureau selects a flower to promote, and this year Centaurea is in the spotlight. Centaurea actually includes a number of species that gardeners are more familiar with by ...

Long before Google and Facebook, young women had no trouble finding out if the new man in town had a wife. They just looked at his buttons. In medieval times, buttons were made of cloth, and if they ...

AT FIRST GLANCE, blue is everywhere in our Pacific Northwest corner of the natural world — bluebird skies, rivers, lakes and saltwater surround us. However, in the world of flowering plants, fewer ...