Plant Highlight · Xanthorhiza simplicissima · Southeastern Streambanks. The only woody member of the buttercup family: a quiet shade groundcover with a chrome-yellow root, a berberine dye, and a deep...

Field Guide · Cold-Hardy Citrus · Zones 7–9 — A practical guide to choosing, siting, and keeping citrus alive north of the citrus belt: the hardiness ladder, the three families...

Plant Highlight · Ilex paraguariensis · Ethnobotany — South America's caffeinated holly: the gourd-and-bombilla ritual, its kinship to our native yaupon, and how to grow and cure your own in...

  Field Guide  ·  Southeastern Natives  ·  Rare Edibles Bayberry, Chinese bayberry, and yangmei: a field guide to the genus that keeps changing its name The word "bayberry" has been...

  From the Nursery  ·  Cold-Hardy Citrus Yuzu Ichandrin: the cold-hardy citrus that grows where lemons can't A mountain fruit from the high-elevation citrus regions of China and Japan —...

Plant Profile • Orchard Curiosity • Cultural Fruit Myrica rubra (Yangmei): The Fruit That Won’t Wait An evergreen tree with a famously brief season—part botanical riddle, part culinary obsession, and...

  Drive the Atlantic or Gulf coast in late fall and you might think it has snowed along the ditches. There, at the edges where the land hesitates and then...

A Citrus That Slips Between Categories There is a citrus you can bite into whole, peel and all, with none of the puckering violence of a lemon and none of...

"In the leanest sandhill or beneath the pine’s green hush, there grows a shrub that asks little, gives much, and remembers a time before concrete and imported ornament. That shrub...

In recent years, the gardening world has witnessed an exciting shift—a movement that marries aesthetics with function, sustainability with indulgence. Enter the era of edimentals, a clever fusion of "edible"...

A History in Every Leaf Before the advent of modern medicine (and crucial to the evolution of pharmacology!!), the world relied on nature’s apothecary. Across cultures and centuries, medicinal plants...

As autumn paints Kyoto in hues of gold and crimson, the streets are adorned with hanging persimmons, their glowing orange skins like tiny lanterns suspended in time. These are Japanese...