While the vast majority of bulbs are meant for sunny locations, some are excellent candidates for the shade garden. Walking ...

Two of my favorite spring plants, almost entirely based upon their progression from bud to leaf, are beech trees and false hellebore (a common wetland plant). I was thinking about why they are so ...

Two of my favorite spring plants, almost entirely based upon their progression from bud to leaf, are beech trees and false hellebore (a common wetland plant). I was thinking about why they are so ...

When I first studied wild foods, I was introduced to a skunk cabbage legend about John Cage, the composer, who had lived in a ...

Meet Branigan Carhart, a true North Idaho local. Branigan was born in Coeur d’Alene in 1987 and grew up in Sandpoint with her ...

The scented geranium is wildly shooting. The deep purple hellebore will soon rest for a while. Our windowboxes, too, leaf and stems tightly pruned, some plants to be replaced, others rehomed.

For a perennial flower that blooms in winter, there is none better than the Lenten Rose. Hellebore, Helleborus, belong to a genus of mostly evergreen plants that are prized for their ability to ...

Hellebore, also known as the Christmas or Lenten rose, is a winter-blooming perennial that offers color and interest when most other plants are dormant. Its flowers come in a range of colors, ...

Meet a greenmage reuniting with her former partner for one last mission, a school nurse with a dark secret heritage, a witch with an unconventional familiar, and other intriguing women in this ...