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 ...

Welcome to our gardening adventure. Let’s grow it together! The bright-eyed monkey flower (genus Mimulus, but for this column, we will use its common name, monkey flower) is aptly named for its cute ...

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 ...

“Here, try some of this,” said Janice Schofield, offering me a leaf from an innocuous-looking plant called spoonwort, which grows abundantly along the beaches of southeast Alaska. “It’s in the mustard ...

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 ...