A fall crop of garden vegetables — lettuce, cabbage, peas, radishes, sorrel — shows in bold brushstrokes of lush greens and wine-dark purples throughout our neighborhoods. Bursts of chive blossoms and ...
Preventive spraying of pesticides, such as one specific to caterpillars – Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki (Btk) – requires regular applications. This will incur cost, time and effort, and is ...
For a beautiful composition of plants, surround it with other flowering bushes in Florida, like azaleas and black-eyed Susans. This fun, colorful ground cover produces powderpuff-shaped, soft pink ...
The common mechanical plant irritants include thorns, spines, glochids, trichomes, and sharp-edged leaves. Many chemical irritants have yet to be elucidated, but known culprits include calcium ...
These plants have glossy ovate leaves and bloom in spring with clusters of small blue, white, or pink flowers that are fragrant and attractive to butterflies, bees, hummingbirds, and other pollinators ...