The onion family is a familiar workhorse of the vegetable garden with cousins leek, shallot, garlic, chives and garlic chives joining the mainstream yellow, white and red slicing onion. Much less ...

The recent boom in native-plant interest focuses mainly on trees, shrubs, grasses, and perennial flowers – by far the main workhorse plants of Pennsylvania landscapes. But even with the diversity ...

Pollinators are the saviours that provide pollen-transferring services across the planet. In exchange, they receive the reward of calorie-rich nectar and protein-rich pollen. On the other side, ...

Emily Dickinson thought hope was the "thing with feathers," but a flower bulb seems like a better metaphor for hope. Tucked into the earth months in advance, bulbs are packed with promise of a ...