With a few tweaks to your landscape, you can support a spectrum of insects, birds, and bats—and the plants that depend on them. Search online for “butterfly gardens,” and you […]
Plant Profile
Spring Blooms, Summer Flowers
As you enter the Garden this spring, you may be greeted by a striking bloom with an equally intriguing name. The Medusa flower, Strophanthus preussii, earns its common name from […]
Tropical Plants for the Holidays
Christmas may carry a distinctly northern bias—snow and reindeer and all—but for holiday-hued landscapes and floral arrangements, turn to the tropics. In tandem with our annual winter celebration, Johnsonville Night […]
Where the Begonias Grow
From stems to shrubs to perpetual bloomers, these distinctive plants have won the heart of the Garden’s Curator. Yours might just be next. Liz Chehayl remembers meeting a begonia collector […]
A Toast to Our First Breadfruit Harvest
Photos by John Eder My office can feel a little bit like a botanical newsroom. Today’s headline: We Have Breadfruit! Matt Herrman, Curator of Special Collections, visits me to deliver […]
Bromeliads Bursting in Air
As a photographer, I’m a pretty basic person. Mostly, I just want my pictures to look good. My ideal scenario is to find subjects that are interesting, maybe pretty, and, […]
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