The beauty of paying attention to the plants around us is that we are forever discovering something new. Just the other day I was taking a walk down a neighborhood street with whose flora I thought I ...

One of the most popular houseplants today is the fiddle leaf fig (Ficus lyrata). Yet this arboreal gem is also a candidate for outdoor growing. You would not know this from looking at the climate ...

What is this plant? I bought it a year ago and it thrived for about nine months before the leaves started breaking and browning. It had furry white mould on the backs of leaf stalks, as well as white ...