It’s late winter and soon we will start (if we haven’t already!) seeing the very earliest blooming ephemeral spring flowers, such as snowdrops and winter aconites. Ephemerals are plants that will ...

* What it is: Virginia bluebells are a Pennsylvania-native perennial that typically grow in woodland colonies and produce clusters of small, blue, trumpet-shaped clusters from late March into early ...

Spring brings the return of color to the garden as bulbs bloom, perennials re-emerge, and new annuals settle in. But there’s a less common category of plants that’s also worth knowing: native spring ...

April is a great month to celebrate native plants. Recently, Massachusetts joined the growing number of states across the country to declare the first full month of spring “Native Plant Month.” For me ...

Steve Kelley of Kelley and Kelley Nursery of Long Lake/Orono area of Minnesota, shares his knowledge of the early little beauties known as spring ephemerals. Virginia Bluebells, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, ...

If you don’t pay close attention, you might miss them entirely. Michigan’s earliest wildflowers are beginning to emerge in wetlands and woodlands statewide, heralding the shift in seasons. These tiny, ...

White dogtooth violet, or white trout lily, is a small, early blooming lily found in Iowa woodlands. In early spring, Iowa’s woodlands begin to fill in with color. If you look closely, you’ll find a ...

Scott Dean has been leading walks through the forests, fields, and mountains of western North Carolina for nearly 30 years—and encouraging everyone to go wild for wildflowers Naturalist Scott Dean has ...

Spring brings the return of color to the garden as bulbs bloom, perennials re-emerge, and new annuals settle in. But there’s a less common category of plants that’s also worth knowing: native spring ...