Q: My son gave me a plant called evening primrose this past spring. He got it from a neighbor. It blooms yellow over about 6 weeks, but each flower only lasts one evening and then dies. Hummingbird ...

Evening primrose is edible and also has medicinal uses, as a user noted. The hornworms, meanwhile, play a valuable ecological role, though they can be a pain to gardeners due to their voracious ...

If it is a native wildflower it must be good? Not always. The White Evening Primrose (Oenothera speciosa), commonly known as the Pink Evening Primrose or Pink Ladies, is a low-growing herbaceous, ...

I had hiked from my campsite to the rim of the Picketwire Canyon to watch the canyon fill with shadows and the sky fill with stars. Walking back in the dark, I noticed flowers that had not been open ...

For the past several weeks, family members and friends have gathered at the home of Mary Stutz every evening to watch an unattractive, strangling place transform into a thing of beauty. The plant, an ...

Q. My friends told me about a plant in his garden with yellow flowers that close very suddenly at the end of the day. They keep a few of the plants to amaze visitors to their garden. Can you tell me ...

I had hiked from my campsite to the rim of the Picketwire Canyon to watch the canyon fill with shadows and the sky fill with stars. Walking back in the dark, I noticed flowers that had not been open ...