I made this oak’s acquaintance courtesy of “Plants for the Winter Garden” (Timber Press, 2024), by Warren Leach. The author ...
The mild weather favours flowery Novembers but destructive animals are out in force. Plants that resist attack are the way to ...
To add subtle charm to the garden during the darkest months, try leaning into contrast: light and dark, shadow and gloss, ...
“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...
Researchers discovered that animal color vision evolved long before colorful fruits and flowers, with warning and sexual ...
A new species of bee has been discovered in Oklahoma and Texas, according to the OU says a recent study published in the journal “Ecology and Evolution” features the blue-colored mining bee and how it ...
Some foliage plants surprise in spring rather than fall. Siberian bugloss (Brunnera), for instance, is beloved for its ...
There’s a humorous old saying variously attributed to originate to China or The Netherlands and it goes something like this: ...
They have hooded blue flowers that are fragrant and quite showy ... Would you suggest some trees we should eliminate for that ...
Long stems and long-lasting flowers make camassia a delightful cut flower. The star-shaped flowers open sequentially from the ...
A recent University of Arizona study finds that color vision evolved in animals more than 100 million years before the ...