Whether you celebrate the creepy season around Halloween or enjoy a bit of a scare year-round, you'll be interested in some ...

Most plants have fairly pleasant names, such as love-in-a-mist, moonflower, glory-of-the-snow, and sweet william. Then there are those with such disgusting or horrid names – bladder fumitory comes to ...

Mums are a go-to fall bloom for containers, but that also makes them a bit boring. Spice things up with other, equally pretty ...

A plant of many names, Calycanthus floridus, or Carolina allspice, is a flowering delight, no matter what you call it. Other monikers include strawberry bush, sweet bubby and sweetshrub, all names ...

Spring tends to get all the credit for being the ideal time of year when it comes to gardening, but don't overlook fall. Here ...

Believe it or not, there are quite a few plant & flower identification apps available for Android, and we’re here to check out the best ones. Well, we’ll talk about the ones we think are the best, ...

DEAR GARDEN COACH: I enjoyed your article on plant adaptations; it got me thinking about something I recently discovered when looking for a plant called mock orange. There were two — Pittosporum ...

Winter might still be nipping at our heels, but it's actually the perfect moment to don your gardening gloves and kick-start your blooming spring garden, a flower expert has insisted. Millie Durbak of ...

I marvel at some of the English common names that our local plants have acquired. Some are fanciful (and a bit silly), such as mist-maiden and shy maiden. At least one is totally misleading: skunk ...