Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus) provides single or double blooms in many colors, including white, pink, yellow and bicolor varieties. These short-lived perennials or biennials are charming plants ...

Since early May, I’ve been able to cut a small bouquet of sweet William about every two weeks. This is a plant I don’t grow very often because it does not like hot summers. Two of the Dash series ...

References to the plant genus Dianthus go back as far as the Greek botanist Theophrastus. He named these plants from the Caryophyllaceae family “divine flower” (dios = divine plus anthos = flower).

Chances are that you grow the National Garden Bureau's 2004 Flower of the Year. It's the dianthus, a plant with many aliases and species. Your plants could be Sweet Williams, or maybe you raise the ...