* What it is: Just about everyone short of discerning horticulturists thinks the chaste tree is a butterfly bush when they see one blooming this time of year. It’s easy to understand because chaste ...

As temperatures rise, some annuals slow down or stop flowering due to heat stall. They will recover as temperatures cool but ...

The signs on county blacktop roads began sprouting up last spring touting “Flowers Galore.” There was no media blitz, no hoopla on social media, just an industrious young woman quietly working away to ...

Late-summer wildflowers and prairie stalwarts are some of my favorites. They’re the kinds of plants you see thriving in the ...

Easy-care perennial plants to grow in your low-maintenance yard include fragrant sand verbena, threadleaf tickseed, Engelmann ...

Black-eyed Susans are famous for their brilliant yellow petals; planted near sunflowers, they'll boost the brightness factor ...

The Amorphophallus titanum, known as the corpse flower because of its smell’s uncanny similarity to the stench of rotting ...

The Station House Hotel in Kilmessan, recently introduced Midweek Departures, a series of escape packages offering guests a ...

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