Plant Profile

Sweet! That’s apparently how ants feel about the candyroot plant (Polygala nana), a low-growing wildflower found throughout the South, from Texas to the Eastern Seaboard. No doubt the feeling is […]

In our last installment of Notes from the Garden, we told you all about flowering vines. Today, we celebrate trees — two showstoppers that provoke lots of stares, photographs, and […]

Catch a glimpse of the hallmark colors of spring as blooms throughout Naples Botanical Garden erupt in full force. While seasonal staples such as daisies may come to mind, it’s […]

It’s likely that many of you have experienced Naples Botanical Garden by day — with its expansive green spaces, plush petals set against smooth palms, splashes of pink blooms nestled […]

I was introduced to orchids as a child, though I did not know it at the time. I remember my grandmother pointing out a cluster of delicate flowers in the […]

If I said the phrase “ancient forest,” what would you envision? California’s towering redwoods? Piney Northern woodlands? The Amazon? If you conjured one of those — or something similar — […]