Marigolds are easy-growing, popular companion flowers in vegetable gardens. They've been shown to reduce the prevalence of ...

There is one spring plant that beats all others, often blooming with snow still on the ground: skunk cabbage.

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THERE IS NO flower more beautiful than the skunk cabbage — unless it is the skunk cabbage in the snow. This swamp-dwelling harbinger of spring is the first flower to emerge from our dismal winter. A ...

(WJW) – Spring is in the air — and it stinks! The Ohio Department of Natural Resources recently shared on social media that, Skunk Cabbage, the state’s first wildflower to bloom each spring has ...

I love the smell of skunk in early spring. That sulfur smell tells me that the snow is melting, the sun is rising higher into the sky, and soon a carpet of wildflowers will paint the forest floor in ...

Most of us think of pansies, violas, dianthus, snapdragons and petunias to decorate our fall-through-early-spring landscape. Another nice addition to cool-season flower beds is ornamental types of ...

AUSTIN, Texas — You've probably seen it: a collection of small, bright yellow flowers that could be mistaken as one of our beloved Texas wildflowers. But actually, bastard cabbage poses a threat to ...