Fill your flower beds and garden pots with these new annual flower varieties for colorful blooms all season long.

Everyone's knee-jerk reaction for color-coding the flower arrangements for special events is red for Valentine's Day and white for funerals ... Studies have shown that blue has a relaxing effect ...

Image of a flower with blue petals on a blue background ... An abstract, geometric picture — black lines crossing at right angles against a white background, with scattered fields of blue ...

Take, for example, Salvia x guaranitica "Black and Blue," anise-scented sage. Imagine deep sapphire blue tubular flowers surrounded by black calyxes on black stems held above deep green anise ...