We have one Confederate rose plant (Hibiscus mutabilis) in our landscape. In actuality, the Confederate rose is not a rose. The plant is a beautiful fall-blooming hibiscus, which produces large, ...

Q: I planted this hardy hibiscus (aka Dixie rose mallow) in late spring of last year. So far it has made no buds or blooms but has grown to approximately 7 to 8 feet tall both summers. It gets morning ...

What plant is found in landscapes but is poorly available in most local nurseries, is closely related to okra and cotton but is called a rose and produces showy fall flowers that turn from white to ...

This time of year, you might be fortunate enough to see a large shrub blooming along the side of the road that has large, exquisite, colorful, pink flowers. People are often taken by this shrub and ...

The summer's "dog days," which are from July 3 through Aug. 11, are customarily the hottest (and often the driest) parts of our year. But this year the dog days were a wonderful anomaly from the norm ...

My son had a large bush in his yard which I could not identify. It was a mystery to me. A few months later during a trip to a plantation in Charleston, South Carolina, I discovered that this bush was ...

“What’s in a name?” Shakespeare wrote. “That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” And, although his meaning was not about the plant with thorns, let’s probe his words a bit ...

This time of year, you might be fortunate enough to see a large shrub blooming along the side of the road that has large, exquisite, colorful, pink flowers. People are often taken by this shrub and ...