When strolling through a garden center or flipping through a plant catalog, you’ll often notice two distinct names on each tag: a common name and a botanical name. While the common name feels friendly ...

While our daily interactions with our plants are limited, every proud plant parent knows that our leafy babies are more than just decorations. Not only can plants improve your health, but they often ...

Last year, in an issue of our monthly newsletter for Yakima Master Gardeners, Jenny Mansfield recounted a stroll through her winter garden on the way to refilling the bird feeders. She noted that Lamb ...

For almost 300 years, researchers have classified life on Earth with scientific names — two-word monikers like Homo sapiens that become a kind of permanent label. But there are those who argue that ...

Plant names can seem intimidating to new gardeners. Common names are usually vague, and can be confused with other plants. The Latin names can seem complicated — more so when they get changed around.

Even though the sun doesn’t always shine in Grow a Garden, the conditions are still perfect for farming a range of Tropical Plants that thrive in a jungle climate. Sometimes, a new event NPC will ask ...

For the first time, every plant species in the state of Nevada can be found in a single list. Published last month, “Nevada Vascular Plants: An Annotated Checklist of the State’s Botanical Diversity” ...

Q: Someone told me the other day that rosemary is now a sage. Is this true? If so, when and why did the name change? A: Yes, this is true. The genus and species have changed for the common rosemary: ...