As the summer garden winds down, it’s time to think about spring flowers, and the best way to ramp them up would be to plant ...

Plant lovers will enjoy the aptly named Christmas cactus, with its flat green stems which erupt with red and pink flowers as ...

Fall asters are long-lived perennials. The plants die to the ground soon after they finish blooming. Trim the spent stems ...

You may know anemones as 'windflowers'; the common name given to these delicate, pastel flowers that rise above basal foliage ...

Eryngoes, also called sea hollies, are perennial plants, occasionally annuals, with distinctive, bristly flower heads. They ...

We browsed the wooden crates, flipping over the plastic cards and lifting mesh bags filled with papery bulbs. They had curious names: Sir Winston Churchill. Fritillaria. Foxtrot Mix. Drumline. While I ...

Nettle leaves are higher in iron than spinach, contain around three times as much vitamin C and are also high in calcium, magnesium, vitamin A ...

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has revealed a list of largely unknown edible flowers flourishing in UK gardens — with ...

These produce foot-tall spikes of blue star-shaped flowers that open from the bottom up from May into early June. They’re ...

As features editor at The Canberra Times, I love telling people things they didn't know - or even things they've always known ...

Fall is the perfect time to plant spring-flowering bulbs. You’ll be rewarded with a burst of early spring color and sustained ...

More like a prototype of a flower, said Hill, who made his initial fossil find here in the early 1990s. He officially named it Bevhalstia pebja, words cobbled from the names of his closest colleagues.