To get the sound Buttercup wants for a song, they will bang on cookie cans, play broken ukuleles, or scrape car keys against piano strings. When these myriad noises are stirred, boiled down, and ...

What: Winterhazels are pleasing year-round — but pure delight in late winter and early spring. Starting at the end of February, the bare branches of Corylopsis pauciflora, aka buttercup winterhazel, ...

Q: Is it really necessary to prune all of the fronds off of my ferns every spring? A: The only reason for removing the old fronds from ferns is aesthetic. Over the winter, a majority of the fronds get ...

Tulips, daffodils, and crocus are stars of spring in Midwestern flower gardens. But there’s an array of supporting players that can add variety to your spring bulb show. Winter Aconite (Eranthis ...

This romantic spring bloomer makes beautiful cut arrangements. Fact checked by Khara Scheppmann Ranunculus is a favorite amongst flower lovers for good reason. Also known as Persian buttercups ...

Astounded, I stared into shallow water at the fringe of Lake Dorothy — a robust, healthy white marsh marigold was in full flower, but its blooms were 10 inches underwater. The lake had already filled ...

“Poor little Buttercup!” Little Buttercup sold her wares to sailors aboard the H.M.S. Pinafore; that’s what Gilbert and Sullivan tell us in their comic opera. And she had a secret. Now a “buttercup” ...

There is a certain plant that has remarkable strength. I always think of an ox when reading about it or hearing its name and for an obvious reason: It’s called oxalis. Yet the etymology of oxalis has ...

Our plants are waking up and there are a lot of plants actively growing in our gardens. While it is always nice to learn some unusual or rare plants, there are quite a few plants that may be growing ...