What: Liriodendron tulipifera, or tulip tree, is the queen of the eastern North American woodland and the tallest-growing deciduous tree in North America. Its leaves are distinctively shaped, somewhat ...

All flower petals are modified leaves. Leaves contain chlorophyll and accessory pigments to enable them to carry on photosynthesis. As flower petals evolved most of them lost their chlorophyll but ...

It’s early spring. Unnoticed beyond the gay purple and yellow of crocuses, the sharp green tips of tulip leaves are emerging from the mulch. The growing tulip foliage has hopefulness going for it, but ...

If ever one needed proof of what an odd and altogether topsy-turvy start to the growing season it has been for Irish gardeners, it’s the unsettlingly late appearance of that elegant queen of spring ...

We need to talk about variegation. Or at least I need to talk about variegation, a subject that divides gardeners in much the same way that air fryers do chefs, or the reborn popularity of white socks ...