There is no such thing, America’s 18th-century founding father Benjamin Franklin said, as ‘a good war or a bad peace’. The current President is about to test that dictum to the limit.

A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true. "When the bamboo flowers, famine, death and ...

Blazing star is just what you need for the blazing sun. These spiky pollinator plants are often purple, though you can find white and pink varieties. Many types of blazing star grow well in poor, dry ...