Q: I have received bulbs from my granddaughter's fundraiser. They are Lilac Time dahlias, Mignon dahlias, Double Begonia Mixture and Twilight gladiolus. When should I plant them? I live in ...

A rare flower has recently bloomed for the first time in three years north of Pretoria. Willie (72) and his wife Nellie (73) Nel, owners of the amorphophallus bulbifer or Voodoo lily, said they felt ...

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Look up climatic zones to see if plants can thrive Q: I have received bulbs from my granddaughter's fundraiser. They are Lilac Time dahlias, Mignon dahlias, Double Begonia Mixture and Twilight ...

Something stinks at the Seattle Science Center, and people are lining up to get a whiff. The amorphophallus bulbifer, or Voodoo Lilly is in the same family as the giant Corpse Flower. It's smaller ...

Do you ever think about spooky stuff? Perhaps you’ve wondered whether voodoo priests – who practice a combination of Catholicism and West African religions – really employ voodoo dolls and pins. They ...

A long time ago, while strolling through a shady garden designed by the late Julian Simone, I noticed lengthy, curving borders of peacock gingers (Kaempferia pulchra). Simone, a landscape architect ...

You need only the slightest grasp of botanical Latin to etch a mental picture of an Amorphophallus bulbifer flower bud. The species, bulbifer, refers to its ability to clone itself by producing ...