Blue might not seem like the sort of color that crops up regularly in a native garden, but you’d be amazed! Here we round up ...

In fact, blue is the rarest color of plant out there, as a recent article on IFLScience explains. It turns out that ...

In our region there are a few fully parasitic plants, totally dependent on other plants for carbon, water, and nutrients.

With about 300 different species, the iris is one of the most visually striking plants in the garden. Whether grown in ...

You find these plants in lawns and gardens, at the edges of parking lots, along roadsides and even in the cracks of concrete ...

This plant is a bunch type grass with many upright tillers. The leaves, like most small grains are rolled in the whorl. Flat leaf blades and dense flower spikes ... Leaf sheaths usually are hairy.

In fact, garden flowers in our cities and towns can provide ... over half of that nectar from July to October. Birds such as blue tits might visit your garden to find food. By planting small trees, ...

Only six years old at the time, I was at first put off by these garish plants. Such strange and vibrant flowers seemed out ... as a "living fossil," this small woody plant grows only on New ...

from tall date palms to delicate flowers, and many of these amazing plants have evolved adaptations that help them thrive in the arid environment. Small leaves are common among desert plants ...

Some plants are in gardens, some plants are in the wild. My mum wants me to water the flowers for her. She says flowers but they're actually plants. Flowers are just the pretty heads. I'm going to ...