Kate Evans Flowering plants that have long been associated with the Christmas season can brighten your home at the holidays ...

These stunning flowers bloom from spring to fall ... creating a spectacle of evolving colors throughout the growing season.

The latter two are grown for their flowers, but many gardeners remove ... that brightens shady gardens throughout the growing season. But it also produces small, light blue flowers in spring.

Some plants save their flowers until late in the season A stunning coleus, no doubt planted for its chartreuse-edged maroon leaves, is now punctuated by gangly 21/2-foot-tall spikes of tiny purple ...