OSCAR WILDE, no great lover of the outdoors, complained that nature lacked a sense of design. "Her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition. Nature has good ...

Dear Master Gardener: I purchased a primrose at the grocery store. Can I put it in my garden when the weather is conducive to doing so? Answer: Primula, or primrose, is a delightful indoor plant ...

It is their delicate markings that fascinate: their sweet, upturned faces often look as if they have been dusted with icing sugar. It could also be their velvety, flour-dusted foliage that attracts ...

They are all descended from a yellow-flowered wild variety, P. auricula, found in alpine parts of Austria and Switzerland. There are now more than 3000 varieties registered in England, some of them ...

As a girl one of my favourite toys was a make-your-own plastic garden. In the set were tree trunks, branches with detachable leaves and lots of flower stems topped by a stigma, on to which you could ...

If you want early spring bloom and your garden is in the shade, three species of primroses (Primula) and five species of Solomon’s seal (Polygonatum) have proven rock hardy on the Canadian prairies.

La prímula, conocida comúnmente como planta primavera, es una joya en el mundo de la jardinería gracias a la belleza de sus flores y a su precoz floración. Existen más de 500 especies dentro del ...