For many gardeners, a shady, damp location presents quite a challenge for plant selection. Most of the perennial plants found in garden centers prefer full sun, and simply won’t grow in standing water ...

Language is fascinating, and makes the world attached to it even more so. Words, root-words and origins. It’s all part of a cool literary maze that helps us understand the world around us. For example ...

This blend of toughness with intense, yet fleeting, beauty is an apt metaphor for Cleveland and makes Rockefeller Park Greenhouse and Botanical Garden a fitting location for preserving the work of the ...

June is a time to stop and smell the bubble-gum like fragrance of a bearded iris, or walk along a wetland searching for the native blue flag iris. Irises, which arise from rhizomes beneath the soil, ...

Currently in my yard there are two pots of irises that I bought at a roadside table. I certainly didn’t need them but there’s just something about their fragrant fragile blossoms of spring. Irises ...

Although cool temperatures and abundant rainfall may not be the start to summer that most had envisioned, the plants are thriving, and I am grateful that most of the region is no longer considered to ...

Editor's note: Once a month, the OSU Extension master gardener's office of Franklin County profiles a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. For many gardeners, a shady, damp location presents ...