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 ...

Centaurea is a very large genus with many venerable garden – and some disreputable – species. The name is from the Greek kentauros, a centaur, who was believed to have introduced us to the medicinal ...

IN Centaurea Jacea, the flower-heads of the same stem, as far as I have seen, are always of the same form, but different stems of the same locality often present astonishing difference in their flower ...