Plant Profiles & Stories

Oak Names: Read Botanical and Common Names to Identify the Right Tree

Oak Names: Read Botanical and Common Names to I...

Learn to read oak botanical and common names, build a working reference sheet, and use it to identify labeled oaks and choose a species or cultivar that suits your site.

Oak Names: Read Botanical and Common Names to I...

Learn to read oak botanical and common names, build a working reference sheet, and use it to identify labeled oaks and choose a species or cultivar that suits your site.

Rosemary Through the Seasons: Keeping Aromatic Traditions Consistent Batch After Batch

Rosemary Through the Seasons: Keeping Aromatic ...

Keep rosemary projects consistent across batches by harvesting current-season growth, drying evenly and storing well. Includes rosemary botany, cultivated forms and cultural history.

Rosemary Through the Seasons: Keeping Aromatic ...

Keep rosemary projects consistent across batches by harvesting current-season growth, drying evenly and storing well. Includes rosemary botany, cultivated forms and cultural history.

Eucalyptus Selection and Handling: Why Cultivated Trees Differ and Which Tools Help

Eucalyptus Selection and Handling: Why Cultivat...

Understand eucalyptus domestication and variability, then choose pruning tools, pots, pot movers and ties that make handling these fast-growing trees easier.

Eucalyptus Selection and Handling: Why Cultivat...

Understand eucalyptus domestication and variability, then choose pruning tools, pots, pot movers and ties that make handling these fast-growing trees easier.

Why Succulent Flowers Change Color: Pigments, Season and Setting

Why Succulent Flowers Change Color: Pigments, S...

Understand why succulent flowers vary in color. Learn how anthocyanins, carotenoids and betalains work, how season and growing setting change flower display, and how to choose succulents for reliable color.

Why Succulent Flowers Change Color: Pigments, S...

Understand why succulent flowers vary in color. Learn how anthocyanins, carotenoids and betalains work, how season and growing setting change flower display, and how to choose succulents for reliable color.

Fig Trees as Distinctive Garden Characters: Choosing Your Next Useful Action

Fig Trees as Distinctive Garden Characters: Cho...

Fig trees are grown for fruit, foliage and form. Learn how to read a fig’s growth, match it to the site and choose the next practical action for planting, training...

Fig Trees as Distinctive Garden Characters: Cho...

Fig trees are grown for fruit, foliage and form. Learn how to read a fig’s growth, match it to the site and choose the next practical action for planting, training...

Wild Maples and Garden Maples: How to Weigh One Change Against Another

Wild Maples and Garden Maples: How to Weigh One...

Learn how wild-form and cultivated maples differ, and how to compare site improvements against a cultivar change before you commit.

Wild Maples and Garden Maples: How to Weigh One...

Learn how wild-form and cultivated maples differ, and how to compare site improvements against a cultivar change before you commit.