One of the breakfast buddies at Richard’s BBQ brought me a flower one of her friends asked to identify. It was a beautiful yellow flower growing alongside the road. My first thought was, “Is a flower ...

Norman Winter is a horticulturist. He is a former director of the Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens. Follow him on Facebook at Norman Winter “The Garden Guy.” See ...

Growing time-lapse of an evening primrose plant (Oenothera biennis) from a seed to blooms. We used a 12-inch pot to plant covered with soil for this demonstration. A seedling appeared 1 week after ...

For the past several weeks, family members and friends have gathered at the home of Mary Stutz every evening to watch an unattractive, strangling place transform into a thing of beauty. The plant, an ...

I spotted the first flush of wild primroses flowering in nearby woods a few weeks ago. Speckled along the edges of a steep, damp bank that sits beneath the dappled shade of beech trees, their blooms ...

On Aug. 18, I was slowly cruising an Ottawa County rural lane bordering Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge encompasses about 7,000 acres along the shore of Lake Erie, east of Toledo. Birds ...

When it comes to low-maintenance, self-seeding flowers that will keep your garden full of color all season and for years to come, many of your best choices will be native wildflowers. These plants ...

I had hiked from my campsite to the rim of the Picketwire Canyon to watch the canyon fill with shadows and the sky fill with stars. Walking back in the dark, I noticed flowers that had not been open ...

NATURE of April 1, 1920, p. 139, published an interesting article on the colouring matters of plants. From this article it would appear that the normal pale yellow colour of the primrose is due to a ...