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Extravagant in every way, the African tulip tree (Spathodea campanulata) is known throughout the world as one of the most...
Not only do white flowers have the unique grace of lighting up the garden, especially at dusk, but they rest...
As landscape designer Nancy Goslee Power explains, fresh design is less about which plants, which colors, which gravels, or styles,...
Although I have visited dozens, perhaps hundreds of public gardens in my day, none has struck me as having as...
The search for more water-sensible surrogates for traditional turf grasses has focused attention on some long overlooked native sedges of...
Berkeley sedge (now properly known as Carex tumulicola) provides another example of how some plants are rushed into production and...
"The most dangerous places are often the most attractive places to live.” So spoke Stephen Orr, garden editor of House...
The ten species of Beschorneria form an interesting but little known genus in the agave family (Agavaceae). Although several Beschorneria...
Because of their climate and isolated location, Norfolk and Lord Howe islands have intriguing floras more in common with those...