Start the gardening year with these easy to grow white spring blooming perennials. Their white flowers brighten a gray landscape and look good with any other plants that come into…
Long buds carried singly or in small clusters (usually three) open to cup-shaped flowers with twenty petals. Each petal is pale orange and has hints of gold and yellow at…
We are all coming to realize that outdoor spaces can be made into extensions of our home and thereby enhance the quality of our lives. Michelle Slatalla, in her book…
The garden was established in 1859 by the Agri-Horticultural Society when the Society focused on research useful plants, especially rubber. The design by Lawrence Niven reflects the English landscape gardens…
Chinese wingnut is a deciduous tree native to Southeast China where it grows in forests on mountain slopes or riverbanks. It is in the walnut family, Juglandaceae, that also includes…
Sweet cherry, the main ancestor of the cultivated cherry, is a deciduous tree native to Europe, northern Africa, and southwestern Asia but is widely cultivated elsewhere and has naturalized in…
Author Bonnie Worth’s book, Oh Say Can You Seed?, combines the charm of Dr. Seuss’ classic books with the a botany less on flowering plants. In rhythmic rhyming sentences, the…
Also called flickweed, this annual weed is native to Europe and Asia but is widespread in the US and Canada. It grows in sun or shade and in damp or…
This native of Japan and Manchuria is a herbaceous perennial and member of the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, that also includes anemone, delphinium, and hellebore. It has many branched stems bearing…
Corydalis is an herbaceous annual or perennial belonging to the poppy family (Papaveraceae) and related to bleeding hearts (Dicentra spp.) It is represented by over 400 species that are native…
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