Plant Profiles & Stories

Fig Leaves and Stems: Reading the Change Over Time

Fig Leaves and Stems: Reading the Change Over Time

Learn to read a fig tree's changing leaves and stems, from bud sheaths and lateral buds to leaf scars, hardening wood and node-borne fruit.

Fig Leaves and Stems: Reading the Change Over Time

Learn to read a fig tree's changing leaves and stems, from bud sheaths and lateral buds to leaf scars, hardening wood and node-borne fruit.

Cacao Trees: Reading Botanical and Common Names to Choose Compact or Full-Size Plants

Cacao Trees: Reading Botanical and Common Names...

Read cacao labels correctly: what Theobroma cacao, Criollo, Forastero and Trinitario names mean, and how to choose a compact container plant or a larger greenhouse tree.

Cacao Trees: Reading Botanical and Common Names...

Read cacao labels correctly: what Theobroma cacao, Criollo, Forastero and Trinitario names mean, and how to choose a compact container plant or a larger greenhouse tree.

How Air Plant Parts Work Together in a Display

How Air Plant Parts Work Together in a Display

Learn how air plant trichomes, leaves, roots and bases function, and use those roles to choose and place compatible combination displays that thrive.

How Air Plant Parts Work Together in a Display

Learn how air plant trichomes, leaves, roots and bases function, and use those roles to choose and place compatible combination displays that thrive.

Carnivorous Plants Without Flowers: How Traps, Leaves and Winter Buds Work

Carnivorous Plants Without Flowers: How Traps, ...

Carnivorous plants produce dry seed capsules, not edible fruit. Understand their flowering and seed cycle, why fruit is rare in cultivation, and how to set up a collection for easier...

Carnivorous Plants Without Flowers: How Traps, ...

Carnivorous plants produce dry seed capsules, not edible fruit. Understand their flowering and seed cycle, why fruit is rare in cultivation, and how to set up a collection for easier...

Peony Names and the Scent Selection Worth Making

Peony Names and the Scent Selection Worth Making

Learn what peony names reveal about form, bloom time and scent, how regional naming traditions differ, and how to select herbaceous, tree or intersectional peonies for fragrance.

Peony Names and the Scent Selection Worth Making

Learn what peony names reveal about form, bloom time and scent, how regional naming traditions differ, and how to select herbaceous, tree or intersectional peonies for fragrance.

How to Read a Succulent: Plant Parts, Their Jobs, and What They Tell You About Care

How to Read a Succulent: Plant Parts, Their Job...

Learn how succulent leaves, stems, roots, flowers and offsets work, what their surfaces reveal about light and water, and which small tools and containers help you propagate and grow them...

How to Read a Succulent: Plant Parts, Their Job...

Learn how succulent leaves, stems, roots, flowers and offsets work, what their surfaces reveal about light and water, and which small tools and containers help you propagate and grow them...