I've always liked donkey-tail spurge (Euphorbia myrsinites). An easy-care trailing plant with tight spirals of gray-green leaves that remain attractive year-round, it also has attractive yellow ...

No matter your skill level and enthusiasm for gardening, chances are you are at least briefly familiar with the euphorbia clan. This family of plants offers something for the succulent lover with fat ...

Over my many years of visiting various botanical gardens, arboretums and nurseries, I’ve developed a great fondness for and sense of amazement about this genus of plants. Almost every time our family ...

If you’re like most gardeners, you’d probably rather spend time plant shopping than grocery shopping. I was on one of those aisle-strolling adventures in a nursery in March when I encountered a plant ...

Spring is Mother Nature's annual do-over, and in the past month and a half, the dormant herbaceous and woody perennials in my gardens have awakened with fresh faces, one by one. Bonfire's foliage ...

The blue-black spires of Agastache 'Blackadder' lend a dramatic flourish to autumn gardens. Autumn tends to major in burnished golds, coppery browns and brash yellows, but these can look uninspiring ...

The fairy circles of the Namib are one of nature's greatest mysteries. Millions of these circular barren patches extend over vast areas along the margins of the desert in Namibia. In 1979, G.K. Theron ...