Seemingly overnight, a Redding gardener said, a rather ordinary-looking plant growing in her yard suddenly developed a bright yellow-tipped, 17-foot-tall flower stalk. The plant sure had never bloomed ...

My poinsettia has looked great since Christmas but is now starting to lose the leaves and flowers. I am not doing anything different, so why is it dying? The poinsettia that decorated your house over ...

Question: My roebelinii palm is developing yellow growths from the sides of the trunks. Can I cut these off? Answer: Feel free to remove the flower stalks, also know as inflorescences, from your ...

Q: Could you please tell me if the plant in the photo is a weed? It showed up in our flower garden. – Carol and Jim P. A: The plant appears to be a delphinium, which is a beautiful perennial flower.

Question: Is the life of an agave lengthened if its flower stalk is cut off early? I noticed that the blue tequila agave farmers in Mexico keep them trimmed off. — Tom Gearhart, Valley Village Answer: ...

The stormy weather that heralded the beginning of the current colder temperatures in Bloomington also toppled the flowering stalk of the century plant in the Jordan Hall Greenhouse on the Indiana ...

Agave's spiky leaves make it a popular drought-tolerant plant. Here's how to care for an agave plant in your container garden ...

Why do poppies and sunflowers grow as a single flower per stalk while each stem of a tomato plant has several branches, each carrying flowers? Botanists have identified a genetic mechanism that ...

Where some people might see a dried-out sunflower stalk, Emily Moorhead-Wallace sees a home. Some gardeners toss twigs, thatch and branches at the end of fall to prepare for winter. But those dry ...