No cook would want to be without the common onion, Allium cepa, an essential kitchen staple that figures in cuisines around the world. But not every onion is there to be sliced, chopped or diced — ...

The recent boom in native-plant interest focuses mainly on trees, shrubs, grasses, and perennial flowers – by far the main workhorse plants of Pennsylvania landscapes. But even with the diversity ...

Emily Dickinson thought hope was the "thing with feathers," but a flower bulb seems like a better metaphor for hope. Tucked into the earth months in advance, bulbs are packed with promise of a ...