making it look like a slab of tasty chocolate. —A sandstone doorway is topped by a sculpted figure sitting cross-legged, sculpted flowers dangling from her ears. A few other darwazas stand out ...

Sunflowers are superb but not always suited to every garden. Here are plenty of other options to introduce brilliant sunny ...

Your discovery is the rain lily, a great flower to fill beds or create pockets of color in the landscape. Rain lilies do resemble crocus blooms and have similar linear leaves. The plants like full ...

Some flowers may have evolved long stems to make it easier for echolocating bats to find them. Like insects and hummingbirds, ...

Giving someone flowers can be a beautiful and stylish way to demonstrate your love. There are hundreds of different varieties to customize a bouquet to a loved one's taste. When curating the ...

It takes a decade to flower, smells like death and draws huge crowds when it blooms. But scientists are still unravelling the baffling lifecycle of the titan arum. I'm in a row of people shuffling ...

Shutterstock Called Amorphophallus titanum known as the titan arum, the corpse plant gets its nickname from its rather foul odor. Let's just say that it stinks really bad. Still, people turn out by ...

Our Mystery Plant (Scarlet creeper, Ipomoea coccinea) is in the morning-glory family. You will recall that most morning ...

It’s easy to define your flower beds and add some dimension with flower bed edging ideas like limestone. Simply lay the limestone out along the edge of the garden, stacking two or three ...

John Hoyland celebrates the renewed popularity of the irrepressibly cheerful pelargonium. ‘Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums.’ Garden writer Beverley Nichols’s ...

Sometimes you go to one of those fancy indoor or outdoor settings, maybe a big wedding reception under a tent. There’ll be a ...