The “miracle” plant Silphium consumed by Ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians, which was thought…

How various roses have survived to puzzle us with their quiet beauty is a question that often hides…

The Thousand-year Rose is also known as the Rose of Hildesheim. It grows on a wall of a Catholic…

Bonsai is the art of cultivating miniature trees, creating beautifully intricate and artistic…

The largest aquatic plant is Victoria amazonica with massive floating leaves measuring up to 9.8…

Megaherbs belong to a group of herbaceous perennial wildflowers growing in the New Zealand…

Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward was born in London in 1791 Although he lived in a city that promoted growth,…

The Liberty Tree was a great elm that was planted in 1646 and stood about one block east of the…

Before slurping down the juicy, sweet goodness of slices of mango, the following are tidbits of its…

The namesake of the official journal of the Heritage Rose Foundation, Rosa Mundi is a lovely pink…

Kiwi fruit, Actinidia chinensis, originated in China and were renamed Chinese gooseberry when they…

Kenneth Kizer, the undersecretary for health for the Department of Veteran Affairs, wanted a…

Ralph Moore from Visalia, CA began an intense breeding program and in the early 1950s registered…

Carnations have come to represent Mother's Day since Anna Jarvis delivered 500 at the first…

For centuries, many countries have celebrated May Day as a way of saying adieu to the long, frigid…

The namesake of the official journal of the Heritage Rose Foundation, Rosa Mundi is a lovely pink…