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  • … guest in a radio talk show in Spanish where she shared gardening tips and answered questions from the audience. One of the highlights for Gabriela was participating in a plant-collecting … of Georgia, where Garden staff obtained more than 100 collections of wild-collected plants from the Caucasus region.  In her current role, she maintains the accuracy of all the data in the …
    Type: Staff bio
  • … can easily grow all the ingredients of a vegetable salsa in a home garden, taking tips from the successful salsa garden within the Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden. The plants there …
    Type: Plant Info
  • … and rosemary are three of the woody herbs suitable for this style. Gardeners today can borrow from this concept and create knot gardens using creeping ground covers, dwarf sedum, and plants …
    Type: Plant Info
  • … various shades of burgundy/purple/silver or green/burgundy/silver and flourish when sheltered from afternoon sun. View the Garden's Plant Evaluation notes on Coral Bells in Plant Evaluation …
    Type: Plant Info
  • … to build and costly to maintain. During that same time period, basil was introduced to Europe from Asia and Africa as a medicinal and even sacred herb. It aided digestion and helped cure …
    Type: Plant Info
  • … or days after exposure. People may also experience allergic reactions if exposed to fumes from burning the plant. Poison ivy is native to the United States and is easily spread by seeds …
    Type: Plant Info
  • … transplants. Statins, drugs used to control blood cholesterol levels, were first isolated from fungi. Other types of fungi treat rheumatism, epilepsy, and gout; they staunch rapid blood …
    Type: Plant Info
  • … degree in landscape horticulture, with a concentration in nursery and greenhouse management, from Colorado State University. Pollak writes for newspapers and other media and appears …
    Type: Staff bio
  • … are cultivated throughout the tropics. By collecting location data, herbarium samples, and DNA from plants, the goal of this project is to produce a comprehensive taxonomic revision of …
    Type: Research
  • … Southeast Asia. The Atlas moth lives for one to two weeks, so its main purpose after emerging from its cocoon is to mate. Most moths do not have functioning mouthparts, and the Atlas will not …
    Type: Blog