On a recent day when the temperature actually went a few degrees above freezing, I went outside just to look around. At one point I ended up by a flower bed in which I planted hellebores many years ...

Lenten roses get their ecclesiastical nickname from their growing season. It begins in winter and extends into spring, surrounding the season of Lent. While the long-lived plants add color to the ...

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 ...