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Best wishes to Centaurea and basil on this happy occasion. Now what the heck is that about? Well, each year the National Garden Bureau designates one annual and one edible as plant of the year and ...

Common names for plants often lead us astray. Go shopping in seed catalogs for bachelor’s buttons and you are liable to end up with a cool-season, northern European weed also known as corn flower ...

Long before Google and Facebook, young women had no trouble finding out if the new man in town had a wife. They just looked at his buttons. In medieval times, buttons were made of cloth, and if they ...

No matter what you call them – cornflowers, bachelor’s buttons, basket flower or the old-fashioned blue bottom – members of the genus Centaurea are wonderful additions to any garden. Even if they ...