Today’s column is about a California native shrub that widely available and a fine addition to the garden. The plant is the Sticky Monkey Flower (Mimulus aurantiacus, or Diplacus aurantiacus). Its ...

Are you looking for a plant that has beautiful flowers, supports the local ecosystem, and helps keep deer away? Meet Mimulus (Diplacus) aurantiacus, or the bush monkey flower. This vibrant shrub is a ...

, known as the clown flower or, more popularly, monkey flower, is neon bright with a big, fat smile. It takes a childlike imagination to see the monkey in the middle, but you need only good drainage ...

Until recently I had no idea why they call this pretty little bloomer monkey flower; I thought it deserved better. Some people say if you squeeze the bottom of the bloom, the flower opens and closes, ...

Monkey-flowers of various species are putting on an excellent display this month around San Diego. Look for these low, shrublike plants with their tubular flowers wherever native vegetation clothes ...

BEAVER ISLAND, MI – Michigan’s rarest wildflower is the Michigan monkey flower, and it can be found growing farther upstream than ever before in an unnamed creek on the east side of Beaver Island. The ...

A new species of monkey flower has been found in Scotland, the product of a tryst between two foreign flowers. But this is no ordinary love child. While almost all such hybrids are sterile — just as ...

Plumeria is a tropical flowering plant native to Brazil, Mexico and the Caribbean. Common names include plumeria and frangipani. The flowers are commonly used to make the flower leis in Hawaii. There ...