Obedient plant is a native perennial plant that flowers until the first frost of autumn proving late season garden color plus ...

Most beginning or occasional gardeners regard the fact that plants have two names – Latin and common – a confusing and intimidating nuisance. No wonder. Latin is not exactly a language any of us use ...

If you've collected your fair share of plants (no matter if they are large indoor plants or convincing artificial plants) over the years, it's safe to say you've committed to being a plant parent.

I'm more than old enough to remember when the tricolored heron — a common and attractive wading bird — was known as Louisiana heron. Some time ago the American ornithological community agreed to ...

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 ...

Speaking as a fellow born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., it took me a while to stop cringing when I heard Floridians pronounce "foliage" as FO-lage, dropping the middle syllable. But as I came to ...