If you’re in the market for new trees, consider planting natives. They are generally lower maintenance than exotic species, ...

Native to China, the mimosa tree in your front yard is a visual stunner. Its tropical appearance with these unique fragrant feathery pink flowers gives this ornamental plant a different name, the silk ...

A shrub or small tree with oval leaves up to 30cm long, turning yellow in autumn. Purple-brown, cup-shaped flowers up to 5cm across are produced in late spring, followed by egg-shaped, edible fruit ...

Salvia can be annuals, biennials, herbaceous or evergreen perennials, or shrubs. They have paired, simple or pinnately lobed, often aromatic leaves and 2-lipped flowers in whorls, forming simple or ...

He added that the easiest way to observe the effect of changing weather patterns on pawpaws is when the trees flower, which tends to happen earlier now than before. Chris Chmiel, who owns and ...

Anne (not her real name) is a single mother and one of thousands of the predominantly female workers in Kenya's flower industry, harvesting and categorising blooms in one of the many greenhouse ...

The North American Pawpaw tree (Asimina triloba) is a member of the Annonaceae or custard apple family ... Although these trees have been around for over 50 million years, they now may be having ...