IN flower these days, the New Zealand tea tree, or leptospermum, is not all that well known by name but turns up in gardens quite often, as it is very attractive in flower in a garden centre. The New ...

If all goes well, Alicia Bacon’s plot at the Ocean View Farms community garden in Mar Vista will be a garden of scents this summer, an olfactory orchestra of plumeria, the flowering vine known as ...

Almost every plant we eat has a flower, and flowering plants populate every corner of the planet. But many questions remain about how and when this vast group emerged throughout the history of life on ...