Go look out the front window and take a peep at your mailbox. Is it as attractive as the rest of your yard or is it just plopped there, right where visitors first show up, stonily performing its ...

* What it is: Despite being a showy, drought-tough flower that the deer and bunnies don’t eat, melampodium has never caught on as a popular annual in Pennsylvania gardens. Newer varieties bloom in a ...

* What it is: This triandrus-type daffodil from famed Virginia daffodil breeder Brent Heath has big, white flowers and lots of them. Flowers open bright-white in mid-April and can last into early May.