COMING into flower in the last few weeks, the Cape figwort will look good for many weeks to come. It has strong stems with nodding tubular flowers, some kinds nearly two metres tall and others a more ...

IT HAS to be admitted right away that the Cape figwort may not be a plant to everybody's taste, and it may not be suitable for every garden. The sight of this vigorous plant reaching out over a garden ...

Don't let this plant's unromantic genus name (stemming from the disease scrofula) put you off. Scrophularia auriculata 'Variegata' -- a bicolored form -- is one of the choicest variegated foliage ...

We have a really flamboyant tree here in Columbia, which has been showing up for years. It can be a nasty weed, often occurring in old vacant parking lots and along railroads, broken-down littered ...

The plates approximately 9 1/2 by 7 1/2 in. (24.1 by 19.1 cm.) ...