Looking at lawns around my neighborhood, you would think that many gardeners are taking an interest in wildflowers. Many can claim their blooming lawn is their wildflower meadow, instead of a sea of ...

Take a tour at the botanical gardens of the University of North Florida and you will notice several groundcovers that may or may not look familiar. You may even be thinking you have seen them before.

They’re as familiar as the summer days of our youth, so well-loved that we often pick wildflowers for bouquets or add them to our gardens. What we call weeds tend to be any plant claiming a place for ...

A weed is merely a plant that is in a spot that it isn’t wanted. For instance, if a daylily is growing in a cornfield, a farmer would consider it a weed, although a daylily growing in a garden — not ...

Q: What is this weed, and how can I get rid of it? It is taking over my lawn. A: Wild violet. I get this question every couple of years. I answer it honestly, and then I get complaints from those who ...

Selecting trending flowers for the year ahead is a way to think about bringing nature even closer to us. In Edible Flowers, I wrote about the impulse that leads our interactions with flowers, one ...

It's pretty. It's purple. It's pleasant to look at. But it's also a problem. The purple loosestrife appears to be an attractive wildflower, but it is actually a noxious weed that Mesa County officials ...

One of the worst weeds in Iowa gardens is wild campanula (Campanula rapunculoides), also called creeping campanula. Unlike the various types of perennial and annual campanula flowers available in ...

BIG SKY — Flower bouquets are beautiful, even if they’re made from noxious weeds. That much was clear as participants lined tables at the Big Sky Farmers market with noxious weed bouquets on Wednesday ...

EAST TEXAS (KLTV/KTRE) - Driving around, any astute observer has surely noticed the abundant wildflowers on the side of the road. In my area we have worlds of Black-Eyed Susan (the yellow flower) and ...

Looking at lawns around my neighborhood, you would think that many gardeners are taking an interest in wildflowers. Many can claim their blooming lawn is their wildflower meadow, instead of a sea of ...