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 ...
The mission is simple yet daunting: Save the Roan Mountain bluet (Hedyotis purpurea var. montana). From May through September, the rare flower peeks out of rock crevices and gravelly soils at high ...