The world's driest desert has been transformed into a sea of flowers in a spectacular explosion of life driven by the rare ...
Theresa Forte is an award-winning writer, photographer and speaker. She is a contributing columnist for the St. Catharines Standard. Reach her at fortegardens@gmail.com. Perennial flowering bulbs such ...
Rice feeds more people than any other cereal, yet the way most of it is grown exacts a heavy toll on soil, water and farmer labor. Perennial rice, which regrows season after season from the same ...
Rice, the staple food for more than half of humanity, has a persistent and well-documented problem: the grains it produces ...
Our friends at Home and Harvest shared details about the life cycle, botanical background and selective breeding process of ...
A rare plant at London’s Kew Gardens is entering the dramatic final act of its life: a once-in-a-lifetime “death bloom” that will end with the plant itself dying. A mountain agave, Agave montana, has ...
Abstract The red spider lily (Higanbana) blooms with bright red flowers during the autumn equinox. Its bulbs contain toxic ...
Looking at a bamboo forest can sometimes make you feel a little strange.Bamboo that has been standing there for decades.
Wondering what to do with tired hanging baskets? Pep up tired hanging baskets with some simple steps, and they'll flourish ...
One Oscar-winning director, one horoscope-prompted meet-cute and a continent-crossing cyclist – is this the start of documentaries that make you happy-cry? Here is a story that on the face of it seems ...
Because it is so visible, goldenrod tends to get blamed whenever allergy season arrives. Ragweed, on the other hand, is far ...